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Soviet Russia As A Good Neighbour
The Disease Doll Of Hungary
A
LOCAL TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
One Fatality Last Week
AN ENLIGHTENED
DESPOT
FUAD'S TURBULENT REIGN
EGYPT'S FIRST CONSTITUTIONAL · MONARCH
HMED FUAD, who died yesterday, was Egypt's first con- stitutional King, but it was in spite of himself, for his great ambition was to rule despotically like his father, the famous Khedive Ismail
·He wished to govern the country from the Palace and he In reply, Mr. Hore-Belisha has had a strong dislike of Parliament, which he tried to get rid of claimed possession of the major as often as possible. But this was not easy, because Britain had part of the accommodation afford-used her influence to place King Fuad on the throne in 1923 as a ed by the Whitehall Gardens pre-constitutional monarch and, Britain's power in Egypt was para- mises. These houses are to
even better idea is to stuff wool in the ears.
be
mount.
pulled down at the beginning of King Fuad was, however, an enlightened despot and an in- Ta medical congress held in next year.
defatigable worker. Many of the distinguished foreigners who Budapest in 1928, an exhibi-
Sir Maurice Hankey will also visited him at Abdin Palace were surprised at his erudition. He {tion was held of charms still in Mr. Stalin, in an interviewjuse among the Hungarians have to be provided with new of spoke fluent French in a rasping voice and occasionally a little English, which he used on his state visit to England in 1927. |fices.
His chief language was Turkish and he knew little Arabic, al- published in a London paper cluded in the unique collection recently, disclaimed any idea were nine rag dolls used on nine Sir Thomas Inskip's tenancy at though it was the language of the 14,000,000 people over whom of the Soviet
en-successive days to swab the throat No. 2. Whitehall-gardens, will be he ruled. Union
The King was a thick-setty. were indirectly the successors deavouring to force its theories of a diphtheritic child, and then cut short by the invasion of the
There is thrown on the road to transfer housebreakers.
man of fair complexion, and a of Ahmed Arabi, the Egyptian, moustache sur-who would have overthrown Tew- on other nations. evidence abundant enough that the disease to the first passer-by
Mr. Ormsby-Gore is now plan-well-waxed in carlier days the Russian who picked it up.
ning how to accommodate tempor-mounted a heavy jowl He was fik, the Khedive Ismail's successor, Communists
to were eager
arily all those who will be de the great grandson of the fa-had it not been for the British spread their doctrines of gov-
prived of their present quarters.mous Albanian, Mohamed Ali, bombardment of Alexandria and
who defeated a British regiment the invasion of Egypt.
Both these forces watched King erament outside their own bor-)
and would have overthrown the
Fuad carefully because neither at ders. If that form of evangel-
Your Daily Smile!
Ottoman Empire if it had not) ism is no longer a part of policy
The King, however, rogatives. "The muted saxophone is an ex-been for the interference of first wished him to increase his pre- it is because the Soviets have"
celient idea,” saya a jazz leader. An Palmerston and the European managed with considerable ingenu- immersed in become
the
cotton-powers. Ahmed Fuad inherited ity to play off the one against the tremendous effort to revive Rus-
much of his ability, and learned other, with the result that be sia internally. A clear recogni-
Altogether 41 trafic accidents,
gradually increased, the royal pre- wisdom from the failures tion on M. Stalin's part that re-
involving one death and injuries
Among other devices that show both his great-grandfather and rogatives and in a few years manag- volution cannot be exported!
were reported to how notably civilisation has improved father.
jed to abolish Parliament. Exile Of Lomal will, if adhered to, make for the to 17 persons,
Scylla And Charybdis peace of the world. There is the authorities in the week ended our morals are cash registers, com-
bination locks, and burglar alarms.
Ahmed Fuad, the youngest son that in the interview that sug- April 25,
King Fuad worked night and day of Ismail, was born at Giza Palace" The person killed met his death
It was a gests sound reasons why in this
Is it too late to start writing to increase the power of the throne. on March 28, 1868. particular matter Russia should when running across the roadway.
at sixty-five?" the but he had to act with considerable period when Egypt's finances were a result of Ismail's be anxious to be the good neigh-Seven people were injured by this hour. The two principal dan-means, two when walking on the writer of a letter to a daily paper circumspection and to steer clear of in chaos as
the Charybdis of British power on extravagances and the intrigues of In 1876 a rers to world peace of which M.roadway, one when stepping off a On the contrary, it's far too early.
one side, and the Scylla of nation-European financiers.
climax was reached when the Stalin talks with frankness are footpath, one in a collision .be-
According to contemporary, the alism on the other.
When the British Government Khedive suspended payment of both so situated that war could tween vehicles, one in a collision not arise without Russia being between vehicles also involving modern burglar is still
when ahead of the police. That is where relinquished the British Protector Treasury Bills and Egypt's debt immediately involved. "There damage to property, four are two focal points of danger," jumping on or off, or falling off, a the long arm of the law should contate by a unilateral declaration in amounted to £91,000,000. The says, "one in the Far East, vehicle when in motion, and one in the zone of Japan, and the when a vehicle ran off the road- other in Europe, in the zone ofway down the hillside.
were 22 collisions beto propose Germany."
There
shall have to help that Re- SEQUEL TO RAID
public." This is a warning]
poetry
in handy.
motor-car?"
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RESPECTABLE
aska
two steps
"I believe chess is a mare reput-have able game than bridge.”
of
Three
1922, Egypt was declared indepen-years later, as a result of pressure Ident, a new constitution was intro brought to bear on Turkey by Bri- During the hearing of a recent seduced the next year and King Fuad zain and the other Great Powers, cident case, the magistrate said that was made a constitutional monarch. Ismail was deposed.
marriage to a girl
His father's exile made a deep Elections were held for the first] On how little peace may hang tween vehicles during the week, while driving a motor-car was aski Parliament and King Fuad had to impression on Prince Fusd, who at
Why "while driving a
hold his band and accept the Na-the time was being educated in is seen in M. Stalin's assertion two of them also involving dam- for trouble.
tionalist successes, because it was Switzerland. When he eventually that if Japan attacks the Mon-age to property.
Britain's wish that Egypt should became Sultan and later King of golian People's Republic, here
a democratic regime. and Egypt through Britain's influence. was always insistent that there was a British Army of Occu-The "You play chess with two bishops, pation in Cairo, Alexandria and Egypt's finances should be stable,
Ismailia.
although his own civil list was kept He realised that Egypt had On the other hand King Fuad jhigh. had to cope with the national hero, ilost her independence in the first the late Saad Zaghlul, and the place as a result of an unsound Jack: "I'm thinking of asking Wafd Party, which championed financial policy and that care would
What do
Egyptian independence and freedom have to be exercised if she were to Jill: "It's a great idea, if you ask from autocracy. The Nationalists, retain ber newly-won freedom.
(Continued on Page 7) although they protested their loyal.
rather than a threat, for almost
in the same breath M. Stalin asserts that the masses of people everywhere have strong! objection to war. The danger,
if clearly recognised, can be
ON CLUB
Blackboards In Court
·
Was
"In what way?" and bridge with four knaves,"
SO SUDDEN!
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley.
THE ENTIRE 26 LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET ARE
CONTAINED IN THE FOLLOWING POEM
avoided. M. Stalin at least pro- A blackboard containing the some girl to marry me. fesses his own belief that the names of horses and another you think of the idea?" forces working for peace in the board with tape machine mesme." world are gaining in strength, sages upon it were shows at and among the more powerful Guildhall last month, when the resumed of of these he sets the League of hearing Nations and the Franco-Soviet charges arising from a police pact. M. Stalin is, in reality, raid on Aldersgate Social Club, doing no more than giving ex-E.C. Automatic machines, taken pression to the uneasiness that to court in a motor van, were affects the minds of statesmen also exhibited. everywhere No harm
At a previous hearing 37 men done by his open discussion of were bound over on charges of the more apparent dangers, being found on the premises. since the recognition of these Charges under the Betting must be a preliminary to their Act were with drawn and Harry [removal The firm assurance Samuels, aged 50, club pro- that on her part Russia has no prietor, Louis Coleman, Han- and aggressive intention should bury-street, Spitalfields, make more easy the search for Rudolph Cohen, Brondesbury- understandings that will be a villas, Kilburn, pleaded guilty preventive of any serious breach to summonses under the Gaming of the peace.
can be
Food From Wood
One of the hardest sayings
Act.
Samuels was fined £80 with 20 guineas costs, Cohen £20, and Coleman £10.
The club was struck off and
we have encountered for a long the premises disqualified for 12 time was uttered by Prof months for use as a club which Bergias, of Heidelberg Univer-required registration.
sity, in London last month. He
told an international conference pork and roast goose
on timber utilisation and re-
Still, as with NebuchadnezzaT
search that "one acre of wood-of old, the unwonted food- in his case though taste stuffs as an acre of arable wholesome, may not
and the experimen- land." German science, he said, good, had solved the problem of get-tal stages, happily, may well The German is ting food from wood. Not in be long. the shape of “hard, dry, in-vastly clever in the production digestible chips, such as few of substitutes, but it is observ- from the strokes of Mr. Glad-able that the old Adam in him stone's aze years ago, but of still craves for the real thing raw wood sugar, alcohol, yeast, and prefers it to "ersatz" when glycerine, protein, carbohy he gets the chance. As an for afforestation, drates in fact, many, perhaps argument most, of the "elements necessary however, the Professor's "bold for feeding mankind." It does declaration will come in very even recon- not sound an attractive diet, usefully. It may but no doubt. German scientific cile our deeply offended Words- ingenuity will find the means to worthian aesthetes to the sight provide the appropriate flavours of a few pine forests on the and Dr. Goebbels will supply bare slopes of the Lekeland the propaganda which will per hills. They can now interpret suade the well-trained rising them to their inward eye as generation that these wood yeast, grease, protein, carbo menus are even more nourish hydrates and alcohol, and be
roast satisfied with it. ing and appetising
and can grow as much food-grass
GOD GIVES THE GRAZING OX HIS FEED,
HE QUICKLY HEARS THE LAMB'S LOW CRY, BUT MEN WHO TASTE HIS FINEST WHEAT,
JUST LIFT YOUR PRAISES HIGH.
SANTA FE KATE
560 EQUALS 600
IF YOU ADD THO PUNCTUATION MARKS
5:60-6:00
INTELLING TIME
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ALLISON
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(TEADER THORNE PLAYS THE PIANO BUNDFOLDED, WEARING GLOVES "AND WITH A HEAVY BLANKET OVER THE KEYS
THE DISEASE DOLL
of HUNGARY
RAG DOLL USED TO -SWAB THE THROAT OF A
DIPHTHERITIC CHILD AND ZHER THROWN ON THE ROAD TO TRANSFER THE DISEASE TO WAYFARERS