Word: wafd
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Marching en masse to Parliament House the wafd deputies and senators found the great iron gates locked. "Unlock them!" commanded the deputies' president, a wafdist. "So sorry!" apologized the chief of the parliamentary police, "but the key is lost...
...independence of India has just been proclaimed by potent Mahatma Gandhi at Lahore (see col. 3). Last week Englishmen were doubly vexed by almost exactly similar news from Cairo. There Mustapha Nahas Pasha, whose Wafd Party has just swept the country and won the Egyptian Parliamentary Election by a majority of more than 19 to 1 over their combined opponents, addressed the following letter to fat King Fuad, notoriously a British puppet...
...Egypt to another. Well, there is one thing sure. Egypt is awake and will not tolerate this hypocrisy and tyranny much longer! It will not last 25 years. I promise you that!" While Mme. Garzouzi spoke in Manhattan, her countrymen were echoing her words with action. The intense Nationalistic Wafd party ("Egypt for the Egyptians"), violently opposed to the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, forced the resignation of Prime Minister Mohamed Mahmud Pasha, puppet dictator, chief Egyptian negotiator of the Treaty. Plump, passive King Fuad invited neutral Adly Pasha Yeghen, twice Prime Minister, to form a "temporary" cabinet, permitted him to restore...
...exactly 28 Deputies in the Egyptian Chamber of 210-that is to say he does not represent the country at all. The previous Prime Minister, Mustafa iNahas Pasha, recently and curtly dismissed by King Fuad, retains the support of 170 Deputies. Last week the members of his party, the Wafd, were forbidden to hold any political meetings whatsoever in the Egyptian provinces...
Though these phrases rang out against Britain, observers were confident that no effective steps to enforce them could be taken by fledgling Prime Minister Nahass. True he is the successor of the late famed Zaghlul Pasha who forged and created the Wafd; but Nahass Pasha, wafded into power, is scarcely a match for lean-limbed, steely-eyed Baron Lloyd...