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a completely erroneous despatch get into print, and it need not be said that in such cases there is-no-intention-of-misleading-the- public or misrepresenting any
instance, situation. For
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the greatest
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When a high official in Canton denied that there was any pro- Japanese plot afoot or any coup d'etat suspected, his mes- sage was published in good faith. It then transpired that there had been 700 arrests of suspected agitators in a few days, includ-
Who'll Win
King and Premier may have boon soon in public riding Togathar..
"T-
HE. King is a good man. Nahas Pasha is a good man,
said Jimmy Hasson.. "They say there is trouble between them. But Nahas, and William Pasha: they clever men. They will find.a
way out.
arc
My friend Hassan's view of the political crisis in Egypt is a little oversimplified and definitely over-optimistic. But It is certainly the view of the big majority of Egyptians-of the man in the street, of the man in the fields and the man on the river.
Young King Farouk is undeni- ably popular. Mustaplin Nahas Pasha is undoubtedly the na- tunal leader-the man whom the great Zaghiul named to succeed him, the man who after years of conflict won Egypt's Independence and made friends with the British.
N
AHAS
and
"William Pasha" (who is William Makram Ebeld, Minister
of Finance and Nahas' right-hand man) are confidently expected to uphold the constitution-and-at the same time to avold n dangerous crisis in the first yearn of national freedom.
Can they do it? It begins to look exceedingly doubtful.
For the boy King Farouk is not making it easy.
He is not yet cighteen. But be has already the mind, the manner, and the assurance of a man of 25. And he has ideas about Kingship, which he learned from his father, the late King Fund,
The bulk of the Egyptian people,
in
Egypt?
by W. N. EWER
(just back from that country),
like my friend Jimmy Hassan, have hardly begun to realise that. "Farouk," says Jiminy, "is a good klog. Not like his father. He is a real
Egyptian, not an Italian like Fuad."
There is one secret of his popu- larity. He is the first of his line (since his great-great-grand- father Mahomed All made Egypt really independent of the Turkish Sultan) to talk Arabic.
Mahomed All was an Albanian. His son and his grandsons spoko Turklah, married Turkish or Cir- casalan women, kept haughtily aloof from their subjects. King
Fuad was educated in Italy, spoke
Italian as his "first" language, could hardly talk Arabis at all, did business with his ministers in slow and halting French.
F
AROUK ins other ad- vantages. He is tall and handsome. If he is not very careful he will very soon be fat. But for the moment, de- spite beginnings of a double chin. ho is still good-looking, with the fair hair and blue eyes which re- call his European ancestry, and which have an exotic charm for Egyptian eyes.
He came to the throne, a boy- king. Just at the most auspicious of moments, when constitutional freedom was being restored and the treaty of independence was belog negotiated. That in itself was a good basis for popularity. Here was new king for a new era. But it all comes back to this Farouk's popularity is largely based on Fund's unpopularity. He liked because the people believe that in every way-as Jimmy puts 1-he la not like his father."
When it begins to get round that as a matter of fact he is in many ways exceedingly like his father, that popularity may wane very rapidly.
for
Fuad spent the years of his reign In two puraults-accumulat- and accumulating lng power money. He was pretty successful In both. Politically, he got rid of parliamentary government years, and ruled with Prime Ministers of his own choosing. Financially, ho reputed to have left fortune of £15.000.000,
Financially, Farouk may or may not share his father's acquisitive- Politically, his ideas are ncsa. much the same. And he has in-
Sometimes he must, or risk his Tho "Very Idea"
He is position and reputation. apt to full back on rumours and "hear-say." That sort of thing is. deplorable in the eyes of of-
·
herited, too, that curious blend of dignity and arro- Kance which - Fund possessed.
There have been times when he has astonished experienced politicians sud diplomats by his dig- nity and poise in trying moments: his self- possession used to be com- mented on even when he was a schoolboy.
But he has astonished them also by deliberate rudenesses which are ominous for the future.
but sovanteen-year-old Farouk,
"determined to be a king," wants to hold the rains himself.
When, on the first day of the Parliamentary scs- sion, Ministers went from the Chamber to
the Palace (a pre-arranged ceremony nt M pre- arranged hour) they were curtly informed that His Majesty was in his bath, When, this month, he received a deputation from the International Ophthalmological Conference, meeting in Calro, he deliberately kept those distinguished surgeons waiting in an ante-room for an
hour.
He likes to embarrass those around him. In order to appear completely at ease himself.
He came to the Throne already quite determined to "be a king,' to be his own master, to have hla own way. to govern Egypt as his father had done.
L
OTS of young Princes have had grandiose ideas, and have also had the luck to and at their sides Mini- sters from whom they could learn. Farouk found as his Prime Minister a man whom for years he had been taught to distrust and detest as the enemy of his father and his House.
Nahas was the man who had led the Constitutional Party in the long struggle against Fund, the man who in the end had won the game and forced the sick and dying King to restore parliamentary govern- ment.
So from the beginning-eighteen months ugo-King Farouk has hated Premier Nahas. And Nahas. knowing the boy's ideas, and the teaching he had as Prince, has dis- trusted Farouk-realising, as most Egyptians have not, that It might before long be necessary again to
fight for the Constitution against a would-be autocratic King.
The King began the fight at onco by appointing the Chamberlain of his Household without even con- sulting the Premier-and by choo5- ing for the post a pollllclan, an ex-Premier, a possible futuro Pro- mier: All Maher Pasha.
Once again, as under Fuad, there was to
to be a sort of Palace-Cabinet. The
King WILS to have his own ad- visers, other than the N
Ministers TC- sponsible to Parlament.
Then Farouk began to interfere
in Ministerial RDD
appointments, in Senatorial nominations. All very cleverly within the letter of his constitutional rights; all zupremely Irritating to his Prime Minister.
Next came
campaign of studied and calculated rudeness. His Majesty refused to speak to His Majesty's Prime Minister, except the most formal and necessary occasions.
on
Unfortunately," said one very Interested spectator drily on one "they forgot to put an occasion, article in the Constitution saying that the King should be polite to his Ministers.
And so it goes on. Quite de- liberately the King is trying to make the position of the Cabinet impossible. to goud Nahas into re- signation or como rash blunder- then to denounce him as a would- be dictator trying to bully a young King.
TAHAS and Makram have been patient to a fault.
N
They have tried to hush the whole thing up, to shield the King, to prevent an open conflict. Maybe by that very loyalty they have lost ground. If the truth had been told from the beginning
IT'S THE ANIMAL IN US Parouk would be less popular,
standing naked and em- barrassed before us.
ing, so one correspondnet said, ficialdom; and yet the remedy is Says, Edward Kellyaway from the horns, and left the four Japanese. So there was in the hands of the very people Who Knows How To some foundation for the rume jwho make complaints. ours after all.
Keep The Wolf
From The Door
NO GAME FOR PIKERS
On another occasion, when out on a big game hunt in India (most of the games are small in India- ten cent jack pots, and fifty cent risen), one of the bearers proached with the news that there was an elephant of enormous pro-
-do
Two bad blunders they have made. In face of the King's atti- tudo they should tmavo kept the Ward could at all costs. Instead, they have split it. They have quarrelled with two of their blent colleagues-Nakrashi Fasha and Ahmed Maher Bey.
There is a "Wald Opposition" to-day, which is more hostile to Nahas than to the King. As a con- acquence Nahas and Makram have Jost a good deal of popularity: the Ward has lost its solid hold on the country.⚫
A story is told of a press gal- lery reporter who was sent to There was a saying among interview a Prime Minister. The newspapermen of famous Prime Minister did not prove. capital city at one time that satisfactory subject. But the to admit was afraid "The bigger the man, the louder reporter he talks." To the uninitiated failure. So he wrote something [like this: "The Government may
We are referring, of the animal and saw that despite dissolve that rather foolish or- the expression might be trans-
fall to-morrow over the-Treaty course, to the experience
blc
By ED. KELLY, BEAST
just shows that you can't be too careful.
portions hiding behind our heap
of on akina,
Wo hastened to have a look at
The Palace has a chance to play off one section against the other.
Second blunder is the failure to
ganisation the "Blue Shirts." It
denounce Nahas as a would-be Fascist dictator.
Its size it was no use na a speel- lated thus: The more responsi- issue and there is a definite split last week of a local hiker/men, an it had fallen arches. The gives his enemies opportunity to
huge benat seemed to be in pain. an official's post the more among the Back Benchers. The who suddenly came face to so lowering it gently on to its We called for one of the likely is he to have something to Prime Minister did not deny looking strangely like dogs. chest, face with two wild animals back,
our medicine bearers to bring say and the chances are he will this grave situation when quea- say it. But too often busy ex- tioned to-day.
seen. Sometimes they wero 50
The poor beast was suffering from calarth. After dosing it up. we wrapped ita chest in red flannel and sent it on its way.
We recall similar experiences The ecutives cannot be bothered with Government did not full and when we were in Darkest Africa. We were in the very darkest questions of bustling journalists, there was 710 split among part of Darkest Africa, where Eight months after, as we were and leave their queries to some the Back Benchern; and there even the natives were dark. standing on the wharf prepara- subordniate who either does not is no record of the
tory to sailing from India, we fnte of And the animals we encounter heard a loud trumpeting behind know the answera or hesitates the reporter. Fortunately, fewed were the wildest wo have ever
us, and looking around saw the Hame elephant coming towards us, to take the responsibility for journalists use such technique wild that they'd grind their teeth looking the picture of health and statements which may appear to-day and newspapers are on with rage.
waving some bright coloured ma- We remember an amusing ex- terini în its trunk. sensational. The journalist is their guard against it. But howperience we once had with a biron. left guessing. And because he much simpler it would be for Bison is the female for bosun. ia usually competing with fairly the news-gatherer, and how intelligent people, he may try to much fairer to the public, if the present a story to the public great men had time to answer without official information. "Yes" or "No.".
It had come to return the red flannel. An elephant nover for- It was during the moulting non-
reis. As a matter of fact, he wends son, and as the maddened beast
us a Xmas card every Christmas. rushed at us we grabbed it by the
WELLI WELLI WELL! horns, or front handles, intending to throw it away. Imagine our Or, as we say in hunting cir- surprise when the skin came right clos: Mino's Tiger."..
The Palace, demanding dissolu- tion, can pose as champion of democracy and liberty.
All the same, if it comes to a show-down, the King can hardly hope to win where his father falled. The hold of the Wafd and Its leaders on the country is Arm and tested.
Farouk's popularity is a quick and shallow growth; nor has hla dynasty over won the loyalty of the country. He would bo well ad- vised, while there is yet time, to heed the voice of Jimmy Hassan and to look for a way out from tha situation he has created.
"To-day's Thought-
The power of kings (if rightly
understood)
is but a grant from Heaven of
doing good.
—WILLIAM SOMERVILLE.