Word: zaghlulist
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...Folk carried on his propaganda from July, 1919, to January, 1921, but received only $5,000 up to the time of his death (1923). The Zaghlulist Wafd subsequently repudiated the entire debt on the ground that Zaghlul's agent was not empowered to make any such arrangement with Mr. Folk. Per contra, the Folk attorneys contended that Zaghlul Pasha and his agent, Mohamed Mahmoud Pasha, did authoritatively represent "the Egyptian nation" in 1919. Zaghlul, famed as "the first native Egyptian Premier (1924) since Cleopatra's day," was, in 1919, President of the Egyptian delegation to the Peace Conference...
...most patriotic course open to Zaghlul is a complete retirement from politics. After Zaghlul's almost undisguised republicanism, King Faud cannot possibly accept a Zaghlulist Cabinet, which is also highly embarrassing to the British Government, while we know too well the effect in the country generally...
...Zaghlul's accession to power would be a return to the anarchy and indiscipline from which the Ziwar Cabinet has lately steadily been effectinga rescue. The inevitable result of a return of the Zaghlulist régime would be the defeat of all the hopes of Egyptian independence and a resumption of British control. We are determined at any cost to prevent this eventuality...
...combined anti-Zaghlulist Parties also secured 101 seats; and of the 13 remaining seats, not more than two were expected to go to the Zaghlulists. This will then give the present Premier, Ahmed Ziwar Pasha, the smallest of majorities, and thus enable him to remain in power...
...issue centred about cooperating with the British, but the future of the Egyptian monarchy itself depends upon a victory for Ziwar's coalition; for King Fuad, by paving the way for the acceptance of the British demands by appointing Ziwar Pasha Premier, has incurred much enmity in Nationalist (Zaghlulist) circles...