Word: wafdist
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With fine oriental flair old King Fuad managed, with British assistance, to maintain himself in power without kowtowing to Egypt's majority Wafdist party. As his royal adviser toward the end of his rule, he kept an anti-Wafdist, Ali Maher Pasha. Under the new King, Ali Maher was appointed to the Senate and Premier Mustafa Nahas Pasha and his Wafdists hoped they could maintain a monopoly as bestowers of royal advice. Two months ago strong-willed Farouk, without ado, plucked Ali Maher from the Senate and reinstalled him as royal adviser. Premier Nahas protested volubly. Wafdist Blue-shirts...
Such funds are appropriated by most European governments, but Farouk was suspicious that the money was intended for the coffers of Premier Nahas' Wafdist & Blueshirt organizations. Again Farouk balked. Adviser Maher acted for him, accepted a compromise sum of $70,000. Then the King tried his hand with an ultimatum. Anxious to get rid of the armed Blueshirts. Farouk gave his Cabinet an overnight choice: dissolve the organization or hand in their resignations as Ministers. At the last minute, Premier Nahas came forward with a compromise...
...British General Election fell last week Egypt's so-called Independence Day, anniversary of the day in 1918 when "Egypt's violent Gandhi," the late great Zaghlul Pasha, demanded Egyptian independence at the British Residency in Cairo. Zaghlul's successor is bulky, big-voiced Wafdist Chief Mustafa Nahas Pasha. He has been telling Premier Nessim, that even if the Premier is obliged to let the British fill Egypt with anti-Italian arms, he ought to demand in exchange concessions that will take Egypt a little nearer real independence. Last week the potent Wafd learned with fury that...
...silence" had been ordered by Wafdist Leader Nahas Pasha, whom King Fuad recently forced to resign as Prime Minister, although he commanded 95% of the seats in Egypt's Parliament. The issue was clearly that of Democracy v. Autocracy, for King Fuad, a British puppet, was attempting to rule last week with a "Palace Premier," Ismail Sidky Pasha, who is not himself a member of Parliament and controls but three Parliamentary votes...
...forty-fifth minute of the "Two Hours of Silence" ticked, leading Wafdists with police whistles stationed themselves beside the barrows full of brickbats, blew and blew. Swiftly an immense Wafdist mob collected, seizing the brickbats, hurled them through plate glass windows with such suddenness that shopkeepers had not time to lower their steel shutters. When police appeared the brickbats flew thicker...