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...Premier, 68-year-old Aly Maher Pasha, worked 18 hours a day restoring order. Simultaneously, he worked to ease the lot of the destitute whose unrest threatens Egypt. He cut kerosene and sugar prices, started investigations into rice and textile profiteering, ordered his ministers to give up their fancy limousines and limit themselves to one Ford apiece...
Dickens is essentially a confidential writer. Even when he is dealing with the broad masses of unrest in France in "A Tale of Two Cities," he is drawn inexorably to the minute details of the situation, which he eagerly and secretively displays to his reader. He should ideally be read-or rendered--in a heavy Victorian atmosphere itself rich in distracting detail. Mr. Williams attempted to recreate this mood by dressing himself as Dickens, beard and all, by reading from frayed volumes on a velvet-topped desk copied from that which the author used in his own "Readings...
...Swedes are asking themselves this question and finding no answer. The result is a deep undercurrent of emotional unrest. It has many symptoms. A few months ago Stockholm was treated to the spectacle of gangs of prostitutes, homosexuals and assorted hoodlums mixing it every Saturday night in Berzelii Park to the delight of onlookers. The divorce rate has jumped from 7.7% in 1939 to 14% in 1950. Sweden has one of the world's highest illegitimacy rates and one of the highest alcoholism rates...
...there was no moratorium on unrest in Teheran...
...economic crisis was building in Egypt (in the past three weeks, the price of Egyptian cotton has plummeted). Amid such unrest, Nahas Pasha had unleashed the furies of nationalism and the always latent anti-British feeling. It was a desperate and dangerous move. If it failed, El Nahas Pasha's wobbly government might fall...