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...King, His Late Majesty Fuad I, who in his declining years was styled "King" (TIME, May 11, 1936 et ante). Last week, however, big-boned, fair and six-foot-tall Farouk I was correctly hailed by Egyptian dignitaries representing his 16,000,000 subjects as "The first Sovereign invested as King of modern Egypt, the Senior Arab Kingdom...
...Field Marshal King Farouk reviewed the Egyptian Army in the cooler hours just after dawn. Every Egyptian town of importance had been equipped by the Government in recent weeks with a radio loudspeaker in the public square and the whole kingdom could listen for the first time to its sovereign. "I pledge myself to be the first servant of my country," broadcast Farouk I. "I thank everyone, the Egyptian people and also foreigners, for the loyalty they have shown to the fatherland and to myself...
...Foreigners." The British Government have been high-mindedly stringing Egyptians along ever since William Ewart Gladstone announced at Newcastle in 1891 that the British military "occupation of Egypt is temporary and should be brought to an end." In 1922 Britain by treaty granted Egypt the status of an "Independent Sovereign State." excepting that the Sudan was entirely reserved to Britain, and her garrisons remained quartered throughout Egypt. It was actually Benito Mussolini-the Dictator buttered the Egyptians with many blandishments while he was making for Ethiopia (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935 et seq.)- who convinced the British that if they...
Since Egypt was already an "Independent Sovereign State" by the Treaty of 1922, the new Treaty is one of "Military Alliance/' intended to flatter Egyptians with the notion that they are held in esteem by the British as allies on equal terms. Held the Egyptians continue to be, for Britain is to retain 10,000 troops in the Suez Canal zone and British bombing planes have the right to operate freely over any part of Egypt-with Egyptian bombing planes given for the first time the privilege of operating freely over England.* The British Navy retains its permanent base...
Similarly, although new King Farouk is "Sovereign of the Sudan," the Sudan is actually ruled by a Governor General who remains British and commands British troops under the treaty which is for 20 years, automatically extended then for another 20 years...