Word: zaghlulists
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...Khartum, three officers connected with the recent mutiny in the Sudan (TIME, Dec. 1, 8) were shot by order of a general court-martial. A fourth was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. In Cairo, as a result of a Zaghlulist petition to the King, dissolution of Parliament was considered certain...
...Government took place as scheduled. One hundred and seventy invited guests included High Commissioner and Lady Allenby, the diplomatic corps, Egyptian dignitaries and M. Fougart, head of the French archeologists in Egypt, but none of the British or American scholars. The occasion was made a political spectacle, the Zaghlulist party (supporters of the Premier) cheering this show of Egyptian defiance to the English-speaking world. Ancient ceremonies of the Pharaohs were revived when two sacred bulls were killed in the centre of Luxor. Thousands of natives and sheiks thronged the streets. The arrangements and lighting in the tomb were very...
...Premier is head of the Zaghlulist Party (Nationalist, therefore Anti-British, standing for complete independence of Egypt). He was formerly a Cabinet Minister during Lord Cromer's regime (1884-1907), is known to be a man of vigorous action, strong views, high intellectual attainments...