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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This reference was to His Majesty King Ahmed Fuad I who, plump, dusky, serene and 61, arrived last week in Berlin on a visit the reason for which was vague to most Berliners. In art circles it was said that Egypt's sovereign was making strenuous efforts to have the German Government return to Cairo the famed bust of Queen Nefertete, excavated by German archeologists in 1913 and considered one of the most important of all Egyptian sculptures...
...plump King Amanullah of Afghanistan). He reviewed troops with grizzled President von Hindenburg. He was publicly and elaborately dined, lunched, toasted, hocked. He gravely inspected Tempelhof airport and the once-royal Staatliche Porzellan Manufaktur. On Unter den Linden, he visited a beauty parlor and, smiling at the dimpled manicurists, said: "Aha! Here is my chance to have my fingers attended...
...Sorry, gentlemen," said Capt. Morris, "I don't want to have anything to do with rebels or rebellions...
...Filibuster?" said blunt Beelaerts, "It was a putsch...
...there is one thing dominant in our foreign policy," said the sock-footed Prime Minister, "it is the maintenance of friendly and cordial relations with the United States. Situated as we are on opposite sides of the Pacific, we are linked by economic ties which grow more important year by year and are of mutual benefit to both nations...