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EGYPT (pop. 20,045,000): in World War I a British protectorate; fully independent since 1936. Head of state: KING FAROUK, 31. Premier: MUSTAFA EL NAHAS PASHA, 74. Strongest party: the Wafd (conservative nationalist). Army: 80,000 British-equipped, but poorly officered. A loud voice in the Arab League...
...palace sulked Farouk I, the boy king with the girl wife. No great friend of the English was Farouk. Despite years of English domination, Egypt was more Latin than Anglo-Saxon. In political control was the Wafd Party, under Prime Minister Mustafa El Nahas Pasha. The best that could be said of the Wafdists was that, with the Axis armies at the gates, they were neutral, their hands upraised. The Egyptian Army, little more than a police force, could not be expected to resist. Egypt, old and lush, indolent and naked, waited-ready to be taken...
Nahas and Makram, No. 1 and No. 2 men in the Wafd Party which dominates Egypt, had loved each other for 20 years. The cause of their quarrel was profound. Shrewd, 66-year-old Nahas felt that he needed to concentrate authority in one hand-his own-to get his country through the impending crisis. So he took back from Finance Minister Makram certain powers which he had once bestowed. Makram, hurt, became so obstreperous that Nahas kicked...
...last week the most serious result was a minuscule opposition bloc which Makram set up within the Wafd Party. Nahas was still sitting on the lid, unshaken, still carrying out a policy of 1) maintaining the integrity and independence of Egypt and 2) sticking to the letter and spirit of the cordial Anglo-Egyptian Alliance. Last week, Nahas Pasha's Egypt maintained a sphinxlike calm...
...Present fears and old sores caused increasingly bitter criticism of the Government in the Egyptian Chamber of Deputies. One deputy waved a gun but didn't shoot. The Wafd Party secretary was removed from office...