Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect no semblance of the Ethiopian State exists. The only sovereign Ethiopian government is that of Italy. In consequence all discussion on the subject of Italo-Ethiopian differences is without meaning. I therefore find myself under obligation not to participate...
...best wife and the best horse in the world, he did not want to succeed his father. Thereupon the British Army of Occupation skipped to the youngest of Ismail's twelve children, chose Fuad to be sultan and in 1922 made him King of Egypt, Sovereign of Nubia, the Sudan, Kordofan and Darfur. Thus the great-great-grandson of an Albanian tobacco peddler, the great Mohammed Ali, became the first sovereign in Egypt since Cleopatra died of an asp bite...
Under Egypt's joke status as a "free, independent and sovereign Kingdom." there are three powers in that ancient country: Britain, the Egyptian King and the overwhelmingly popular Wafd Party. Of these three, any combination of two is possible. Britain and Fuad combined to suppress the Wafd; Britain and the Wafd combined to clip Fuad's autocratic powers; Fuad and the Wafd combined to defy Britain. Last week the death of King Fuad cut short the deliberations of delegations of Britons and Egyptians engaged in drawing up a new Anglo-Egyptian treaty giving Egypt a few new privileges...
There was still no Senate. Oldtime politicians, accustomed to gypping the Egyptian masses, proposed to use the Gov ernment's "temporary sovereign rights" to open the late King's envelope and let the Government of Premier Aly Maher Pasha appoint two-fifths of a new Senate. Had there been a strong new King at hand, Premier Maher Pasha might have done...
Died. King Fuad I of Egypt, 68, ninth sovereign of his dynasty; after long illness complicated by stomatitis and gangrene; in Cairo. Fat, scholarly Ahmed Fuad, proclaimed King in 1922, was Great Britain's unwilling puppet, repeatedly threw his weight against the Wafdists, Egypt's overwhelming majority party. His only son, Prince Farouk, 16, succeeds to the throne under a regency...