Word: sultanism
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Fuad's father was Ismail the Magnificent, a foolish spendthrift who dissipated himself out of the khediveship, under Turkish rule. When Ismail's oldest living son died in 1917 as sultan, his son in turn declared that since he had the 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...
Never expecting to be sultan, much less king, Fuad had spent his youth in Italy. The two doctors at his deathbed last week were Italians. Lest Farouk grow up under the same influence, Britain last year ceremoniously whisked that downy-lipped young prince off to Kingston Hill for a good British education (TIME...
...King Cole") Cole, 53, Great Britain's No. 1 practical joker, brother-in-law of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rt. Hon. Neville Chamberlain; in Honfleur, France. Most famous of his 95 pranks were the results of skillful impersonation: 1) when a student at Cambridge, he posed as the Sultan of Zanzibar, had dignitaries escort him through the University, give him a champagne dinner; 2) in 1908, as a well-known Indian potentate, he asked to see the Dreadnaught, newest of battleships, then surrounded in official secrecy. The naval officials put on full regalia, conducted him over every ship, gave...
Married. Princess Senije, 27, third sister of King Zog I, Italy's puppet, poker-playing ruler of Albania; and H. R. H. Prince Mehmed-Abid of Turkey, youngest son of Sultan Abdul ("Abdul the Damned") Hamid II, onetime oppressor of Albanians; in Tirana...
...Italians on their recent drive, had been abandoned by Italian colonial troops, but not yet reoccupied by nervous Ethiopians. Italian headquarters still insisted that they were using Gorrahei's airport, a field some distance from the town. ¶ Mystery man of the week was H. H. Mohammed Yayou, Sultan of Aussa, a plains district between the Danakil Desert and the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railway. Certain it was that he was fighting. There was some confusion about which side he was fighting for. Weeks ago he was supposed to have been bought by Italian gold. Few days later...