THE (HA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1936
AN ENGLIGHTENED DESPOT
(Continued from Col. 6)
Pasha, *
To-day's Complete, Short Story
THE OLD PSYCHOLOGY
No
اد
By Nora "Mitchell
Cross activities during the war and where he received for the first time At the age of 7 Prince Fuad was an interest in public service of what amounted to a popular ora- sent to a school in Cairo which had various kinds. He had divorced his tion. The King was at this mo-
TOEL BAINBRIDGE had soul and liked to see the enjoyment been especially started for the first wife three years after the marment in a strong position, too, After ringe and married in March, 1918, because British feeling was anti- Thediye Ismail's children.
not always been poor, but which his money could bring. three years he was sent to the Princess Nazli, daughter of Abdel Ward, as the party had turned
And so things went along prettily former down the terms of the treaty seeing him, now, as he walked Toudikon School in Geneva to Rabim Sabri
Governor of Cairo. He had one brought back by Sarwat Pasha. along the Strand, through the until the day that Uncle John had study for a further two years.
In June, 1923, a sensational trial foggy, bitterly cold, cheerless performed his last business deal. Great Promise Shown daughter by his first wife, Princess From there be went on to the Fawkia, who in 1919 married Mah- took place which was intended to evening, it was hard to believe. He was laid to rest in a quiet mud Pasha Fakry, many years discredit the Wafd leaders, but The fact remained: he had not little cemetery and Noel found him- Italian Military School at Turin,
they were acquitted and their always been poor. Not so very self the sole proprietor of the con- where Victor Emmanuel, the future Egyptian Minister to France.
Proclaimed King
popularity increased. The trial long ago ten months to be cer
But not for long. Quickly it was King of Italy, was also a cadet.
After the Declaration of Egyptian concerned the administration of the precise he had been his uncle Prince Fund showed great promise
Independence on February 29, vast property in Egypt belonging to John Bainbridge's right-hand discovered that things were not so prosperous as they had seemed. in the Italian Field Artillery.
His father had been deposed soon 1922, Fuad began to take a little Prince Seif el Din, who was now man.
That was in the days when the Competition of newer and more up- after he had arrived in Switzerland more part in Egyptian affairs and living in exile at Constantinople
two Bainbridges, neither looking to-date firmus was rocking the once solid foundations of Uncle John's and he was abraid through the jon March 16 he was proclaimed after his escape from Ticehurst.
King Fuad took advantage of this very much farther than his nose, troublesome times of the Arabi re. King of Egypt.
months Rushdi trial to force the Wald Cabinet had sat in a sumptuously furnished business. volt, the British bombardment of For
the invasion of Fasha's Commission worked on the from office, and suddenly on July office for a limited number of hours Alexandria and
draft of the new Constitution which a moral decree was issued dissol per day, and made or thought Egypt.
In 1890, after Abbas Hilmy had was passed on April 19, 1923. But in Parliament and suspending the they made a good living out, of Khedive, not without an incident with the Parliamentary regime for three supplying, on a big scale, office succeeded Tewtik 38
In the first draft it was years. Molamed Pasha Mahmud, furniture and equipment. Prince Fuad went to Constantinople Ring. to see his exiled father. There he stated that the King should be a liberal politician of integrity and was presented to his suzerain, the styled King of Egypt and the bitter opponent of the Wafd, was Sultan Abdul Hamid, who appoint-Sudan". Lord Allenby, then Highmade Prime Minister. ed him Military Attache to the Commissioner, had to intervene for Turkish Embassy in Vienna.
After a
sident.
Attempt On His Life
Prince Seil el Din believed that
MANY
(the status of the Sudan.
Turbulent Years
50
Another Attempt
After
Sixty-five and unmarried, Uncle
John drew little from the business
SLOW AND COSTLY LITIGATION
Judge Crawford's Criticism
TO-MORROW'S STORY
Monday's story will be 'Danger: Men at Work,” by Robert J. Bailie.
because his needs were few and small. Nephew Noel, forty years the suppression of this article, and During the dictatorship. of Mo-younger, and very much in love
The affairs of Bainbridge's were time he returned to another was substituted in which ithamed Mahmud Pasha another at- with himself. made up for this sc
the balance- Egypt as Aide-de-Camp to the was stated that the title of the tempt was made to settle the commodating defect, for the needs duly wound up. More by good luck Khedive Abbas ili Prince King of Egypt would be established outstanding questions between of a young man intent on enjoying than management, Fuad showed himself at this time after duly accredited negotiators Britain and Egypt by a treaty, life are many and extremely varied. sheet was on the right side.. When Uncle John, of course, knew all the auctioneer's hammer had done to be a young man of considerable u detinitely fixed the status of The Labour Government then in
He the Sudan,
Numerous fruitless power insisted, however, that the this, but because he intended nam-its work, and the last creditor had energy and wile interests: concerned himself with numerous tiations were carried out within terms should be submitted to the ing Noel as his sole beneficiary, been paid, Noel found himself with
and youth as bis sole assets. charitable and durational institute next 10 years for the conclusion electorat before it could be signed. just saniled. He was a genial old a cheque for one hundred pounds
of an Anglo-Egyptian treaty, which The result was that the Wald came
At first he had been optimistic--- tions. He was also largely respon
surely he would soon find scre sible for founding the Egyptian wl settle the four points which hacks to power with a big majority University and was its first Pre-Wen reserved at the time of thejund the dictatorship was ended.
suitable employment. But months fbelaration of independence and For the first time a fully repre-
passed without result and be found sentative Wafd delegation went to
lis courage. ebbing. Avoiding Hendon to negotiate a treaty on!
familiar hunts where he might In 1996, at the age of 28, he mar
meet old friends, slowly he found ried Princess Chivekar, daughter of The next few years in Egypt the basis of the draft accepted by
himsel drifting into sort of his cousin, Prince Ibrahim Fund. Were turbulent. Zaghiul returned Mohamed Mahmud Pasha.
fapathy. She was the sister of Prince Seif from Malta and at the elections the protracted discussions they refused to accent the British Governinent's
Though he realised the over- Dia, who as a result of a quarrell Wafd gained a large majority
An important plea for reform crowded state of the labour market, with Prince Fuad was exiled tranfthat Saad Zaghlul was in a positions, and returned to Egypt with]
their popularity increased." in the courts to expediate jus-and the consequent extreme dith- Egypt and for some time an innute to form a cabinet. The next year
The King found himself in a dif-tice and lessen the cost is made culty of Ending employment, of Tigehurst Lunatic Asyluni, in preveded to London to negut pusition. If the Wafd play-by Judge J. D. Crawford, who nevertheless the continual refusals
tiate a treaty with Mr. Ramsayed their cards well there was no Susser.
| Ma-Donald and the Labour Fuad was maltreating his sister Cabinet, but he showed himself to reason for the British to interfere spent 30 years at the Bar and gave him a sense of inferiority and courts in He had Sve pounds left, and if and, roused to fury one day, he too intransigent in his demands, add he would have to accept a dis-retired in 1934 after 16 years he no longer walked jauntily.
something did not happen very rushed into the fashionable MoFollowing Zaghlul's statement in tasteful Government for some time. as judge of county
He has written a book, pub-soon the day was looming up when hamed, Ali Club in Cairo and fired the Egyptian Parliament that it But the Wafd did not play their Middlesex and Essex.
cards well. They were provokedĮ was humiliating that the Sirdar and a revolver at Prince Fuad who was Governor-General of the Sudan, Sirby the King's tactics of delavinelished last month. of "Reflec-lhe world join the Embankment felt profoundly Le Stack, should be a foreigner, putting his signature to legislation, tions and Recollections." (Mar-sleepers!
some of which was certainly un-chand Press. 12s. 6d). In it miserable.
As he turned off from the Strand, Egyptian politicians and diplomats i was sone months later wise, and Nahas Pasha played into he says, in regard to the High Noel wondered what to do next. who were sitting round sipping
The British Government at once the King's hands by resigning Courts.
"Cost is too great, delay is To add to the sordidness of the their coffee and playing chess.
too
These are evils, evening, a fine drizzle had set in, great Prince Fuad fell with wound in took vigorous action: warships the throat and Prince S-if el Din were despatched and an ultimatum
When evils exist it is the busi-and if he didn't find shelter some- Įdelivered. Subsequently, Zagilul, This was a turning-point in the ness of statesmen to remove where he would soon be drenched was arrested.
to the skin. It was useless return- The injured Prince recovered Sabus Pasha, Makram Ebeid and King's reign. From now on he was them."
It wasi after a little time but it left himthers were deported to the Sey-able to assume the mantle of the
"Our boast of the purity of ouring to his attic room. jchelles.
autocratic Mohamed Ali dynasty. with a wound which produced a
justice becomes almost a mockery almost as cold and cheerless as the With the departure of many of With the help of an able adminis- if the cost is so great as to make streets.. curious intake of breath when he
men and women submit to an injus- The drizzle increased and begen was excited or embarrased while the Wafd lenders the King began trator, Ismail Sidky Pasha, he dis-
to come more into the open, and solved Parliament, a new Constitu- tice rather than face a bili of costs to sting his face. He looked round talking.
which may spell rain.
quickly for a porch or doorway in Prince Seif el Dia was declared profit by the anti-Wafd feelings tion was drawn up, and a new
"I see no reason at all why litiga- which to shelter: and then his mentally unbalanced and was saved which were now felt by the British. Electoral law passed by decree..
tion might not be
made cheaper Condition Both measures were directed at from imprisonment. He was later Ziwar Pasha fotrued a
and less dilatory without in any questing eyes noticed the illumia- transferred from Egypt to a mental Government in 1925 fellowing new breaking. the power of the Wafd
way imperüling the admiration in sted doorway through which two ori home at Ticehurst. After a little clections, but when it was found and increasing that of the King,
which our courts are justly held" three people were passing. There, that the majority of Parliament and they were surprisingly success-
Denial Of Justice
was an oblong piece of paper pasted tame he managed a sensational
Yes, more escape with the help of a warder were Zaghlulists Parliament was ful. The elections were turbulent
After his long experience he on the wall outside. who fled abroad with him. They dissolved and government was car-and there was considerable loss of says bluntly that the cost of people were passing inside to com went to Constantinople, where the tied on without it. While Ziwar life, but a puppet Parliament was litigation has appalled him; that fort and dryness.
Pasha was away in London the eventually elected and it was argu-it amounts to a denial of jus- Noel hurried across the road and scanned the damp poster which was ing, through Nashant Pasha, aed that everything had been done tice:
Judge Crawford believes that beginning to peel from the wall. and governed the country through The British Government washed
a remedy is to be found in alt appeared that Professor Foster the palace.
their bands of the whole affair. Atide extension of the County had hired a room on the second
sitting in the lounge. There was consternation among the many
Prince took up residence. From
there he made numerous attempts to regain his property in Egypt.
Proclamation Issued
ļussassinatal.
ofice.
Mantle Of Autocracy
Palace official, increased his control constitutionally.
He
In 1918 Lord Kitchener as High
•Commissioner introduced measures | When Lord "Llovd arrived in tions the British Government an- for the extension of the Legislature. Egypt in October, 1925, as the new nounced that there would be no in-places of importance in Eng- hut on the outbreak of war and High Commissioner, it looked as it terference in the internal affairs of land and Wales, he points out, because of the strategic importance King Fuad was well on the road to Egypt. This meant that Great where the County Courts, which to Britain of Egypt and the Suez establish himself as an qutocrat Britain, with her large army of sit for 11 months of the year, Canal it was felt that it was no Having dealt successfully with the occupation, lent tosit support to are not in close proximity to time for constitutional experiments. Wafdists and Liberals, the King whatever
in the place where the parties and On December 18, 1914, a pro-thought that he would have the power, and the King's Government witnesses reside.
was issued in which sympathy of the new High Com-looked as if it were going to remain Egypt was declared a British promissioner, who did not seem over-in power for some time. tectorate, thus ending Turkish democratie in his leanings.
Settled Government · suzerainty over Egypt, and a bond of many centuries was broken.
Lord Lloyd's Agival the time of the last treaty, negotia Court system. There are few (Continued on. Page 11)
clamation
Government
Was
sult it was not long before there During his term of office the centres of population.
INJURIES IN AN ACCIDENT
$750 For General's Daughter
He regards as ludicrous the present system of limiting County Court jurisdiction to claims that do not exceed £100. King Fuad was surprised, how- Egypt for a comparatively long
LEFT LEG BROKEN A second proclamation issued the sisted that he should behave more and the opposition had little chance absurd
ever, to find that Lord Lloyd in-period enjoyed a settled government It is, he says, logical and next day announced that Abbas constitutionally. He
Damages of £750 were award- demanded of raising their heads. Ismail
Adaptation Lacking Hilmi Pasha, the Khedive, was de- the dimnissal of Nashaat Pasha, Sidky Pasha wished to sign an:
One of many reasons he gives ed at the London Sheriff's Court posed on the grounds of adherence and that elections should be held. Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, but the for a vast extension of the last month to Miss Mary Hope to the King's enemies, and that This was done in May of the Dert British Government was not over County Court system is that Jeanne Mance, aged 20, daugh Prince Hussein Kemal had accept year, and the Wafd Party had an eager, considering the dictatorial Assize arrangements have not ter of Brigadier-General Sir ed the succession as Sultan of overwhelming majority. As a re-nature of the administration. been adapted to the changes in Harry Osborne Mance, of Frith Egypt.
Hi, Godalming, Surrey, Sir The Protectorate
was a crisis between the Wafd and Prime Minister brought about a He points out that a claim in Harry was also awarded £151. The proclamation of the protec- the British Government, and Lord settlement with Abbas Hilmi, the respect of a street accident in special damages.
The defendant was Mr. WI- torate, which placed a Moslem Lloyd asserted himself.
ex-Khedive of Egypt, which was of Plymouth, which, with Devon- country under a Christino power In 1927 King Fund with Sarwat great satisfaction to the King port, has 300,000 people, may fred John Black. de jure as well as de fecto, was a Pasha, the Prime Minister, paid a The latter had never felt entirely necessitate a hearing at Exeter, Miss Mance, whose left legi
broken when she was great stimulus to Egyptian Nation-state visit to England. There had secure on the throne while the able with
a population of about was alism, which eventually culminated been doubts in some quarters as and astute Abbas Hilmi remained 66,000.
knocked down by a motor-car, in riots and serious bloodshed. Ato whether King Fund would be possible rival; but according to! Winchester, an ancient city said that she was on holiday atį promise had also been made that granted the full honours of an -the settlement the ex-Kherlive with a population of about the time of the accident. the Egyptians would not be invol-dependent sovereign, since there agreed to recognise King Fuad, and 23,000, is the Assize town for ved in the war. But as Egypt was were still four important questions his heirs, as King of Egypt and to the whole of Hampshire, al-
Fond Of Games - a base for the operations in Pales which had been reserved for settle-reponnes soy claim of his own to though Southampton has a "I am very fond of games," tine and Syria camels, fodder and ment by an Anglo-Egyptian Trenty. the throne.
population of 176,000. ·
she added. "I played tennis food had to be commandeered. Great Britain was still responsible King Fuad was a difficult man to
and netball at Girton, represeft- About 140,000 members of the for the protection of the lives and work under and very few Ministers Egypt the King handed him the ing my college at netball. I Egyptian Labour Corps were also property of foreigners and the Bri-were prepared to put up for long list of his Cabinet!
have played this year and found sent to France and Mesopatamia tist Army of Occupation remained with bis autocratic treatment of King Fuad's heir is Prince Faruk, that the muscles of my leg ache and many of them loat their lives. in the heart of Egypt.
them. There came a time when born February 11, 1920. He has and I cannot run as well as I All through the troublous times
even the "suave and diplomatic been well educated in Europe could no longer play for the
Warm Reception
of 1918 and 1919 when Pashas King Fuad, however, was given Sidky Pasha had to throw in his languages and general culture, college Zagblul, Sidky, Mohamed Mahmuda warm reception as an independent band and in September, 1933, after always with the consideration that Miss Mance said there was a and Harned el Bassel were deport sovereign and this made a very returning from a health care in he would one day succeed his ed to Malta, the Sultan counted favourable impression in Egypt. Europe he resigned.
father as King of Egypt.
hony protuberance on her leg. He is little in the affairs of the country. The opportunity was taken to re The King then chose his Cabinet fond of riding and other sports. A toe was also causing her The contest was between the open negotiations for an Anglo-before even selecting a Prime King Fuad also leaves four pain, and Mr. Alan Todd, a sur- Egyptian Nationalists and the Egyption Treaty. The King paid Minister and when Abdul Fattah daughters, younger then Prince geon, said that sooner or later. visit to Home in August and re-Yehia Pasha, who was hastily sum Faruk They are Princesses Faw he thought, it would become
necessary to amputate it. Sultan Fuad took part in the Red turned in November to Egypt, moned from shoed, arrived in ria, Fazis, Faika rud Fathinda
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