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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...
Hence last week there was neither a Chamber of Deputies nor a Senate to wit ness the envelope's opening. A Chamber election was run off with comparative decorum (two killed, 50 wounded) four days after King Fuad died. Result was an overwhelming victory for the Wafd which clinched 118 seats at once, expected when all votes are counted to hold nearly 200 of the Chamber's 235 seats...
Instead the Premier agreed with the Wafd leader to call a Senate election this week. Senate and Chamber to assemble on the tenth day after Fuad's death to watch the opening of the envelope...
...late Zaghlul Pasha founded the Wafd Party which today wins most Egyptian elections by about 97%. The Wafd does not control Egypt for the reason that the country's Premier and its King are puppets imposed and maintained by the British Government which officially maintains that the country is also "The Free and Independent Kingdom of Egypt." For Zaghlul's widow last week all this was too much. In French she cried: "I am boycotting everything British, even the language. We Egyptian women are throwing our moral force and encouragement- and we are ready to give also...
...Last week the Suez Canal management announced that its gigantic suction dredgers had completed the job of deepening the 100-mi, long ditch through the shifting sand of the Sinai Desert from 33 to 34 ft., to oblige primarily big Australian freighters, incidentally the British Navy. *Wafd means "delegation." The party takes its name from the delegation led by Zaghlul Pasha to Paris in 1919 to voice Egyptian Nationalist aspirations at the Peace Conference...