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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 1938.

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1938.

OFFICIALS SHARE

THE BLAME

Canton is protesting against unfounded rumours published Dick Robertson's Orchestra

in the Hongkong newspapers, .Reginald Dixon The inference is that they were ......Brian Lawrence's Orchestra jborn and bred, dressed and pre- Brian Lawrence's Orchestra sented here. That is not the Sandy Powell case. The majority of these rumours come from Canton it- Joe Peterson Joe Peterson self. Hongkong has no choice but to publish them; for they Gracie Fields may be truc. In most cases they are close to the facts; in some .Vera Lyn

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the greatest circumspection. When a high official în Canton denied that there was any pro- Japanese plot afoot or any coup d'etat suspected, his mes-

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man. Nahas Pasha is said a good man, Jimmy Hassan. They say there is trouble between them. But Nahas and William Pasha: they

They will find a clever men. 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- Mustapha Nahas ably popular. Pasha is undoubtedly the na- tional leader-the man whom the great Zaghlút named to succeed him, the man who after years of conflict won Egypt's Independence and made friends with the British.

N

AILAS

* Killll:1} and 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 avoid a dangerous crisis in the first years of national freedom.

It begins to Can they do it? look exceedingly doubtful.

For the boy King Furouk is not making it easy.

He is not yet elghteen. But he 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, havo hardly begun to realise that. suya Jimmy, is a "Farouk," good king. Not like his father. He is a real Egyptian, not an Italian like Fund."

There is one secret of his popu- larity. He is the first of a 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 spoke Turkish, married Turkish or Cir- cassian women, kept haughtily aloof 'from their subjects, King Fuad was.educated in Italy, spoke Italian as his "first" language. could hardly talk Arable at all, did business with his ministers in alow and halting French.

very

AROUK has other ad- vantages. He is tall and handsome. It he is not careful he will very soon be fat. But for the moment, de- spite beginnings of a double chin, he is still good-looking, with the Inir 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. being negotiated. That in itself was a good basis for popularity. Here was a new king for a new era.

But it all comes back to this- is largely based Farouk's popularity

on Fuad's unpopularity. He 18 liked because the people belleve that in every way-as Jimmy puts It he is 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.

Fund spent the years of his reign In two pursuits-accumulat- 110 power and accumulating money. He was pretty successful Politically, he got rid of In both. parliamentary government for and ruled with Prime years, Ministers of his own choosing. Financially, ho is reputed to have left a fortune of £15,000,000,

Financially, Farouk may or may not share his father's acquisitive- ness. Politically, his ideas are And he has in- much the same.

sage was published in good faith. Sometimes he must, or risk his The "Very Idea"

It then transpired that there had position and reputation.

He is

herited, too, that curious blend of dignity and arro- gance which Fund possessed.

There have been times when he has astonished experienced politicians and diplomats by his dig- nity

and poise in trying moments: his self- possession used to be com- mented on even when he

a schoolboy. Wag a

But he has astonished them also by deliberate rudenesses which are ominous for the future.

but soventeen-year-old Farouk, determined to be a king," wants

to hold the rains himself.

When, on the first day of the Parliamentary ses- slon, Ministers went front the Chamber to the Pulnce to pre-arranged ceremony nt 3 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 Cairo, he deliberately kept those distinguished surgeons walling in an ante-room for an

Hour

He likes to around him. in order to appear completely at case himself.

embarrass those

He came to the Throne already quite determined to "be a king,' to be his own master, to have his own way, to govern Egypt as his father had done.

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OTS of young Princes have had grandiosa Ideas, and have also had the luck to find 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 Fuad, the man who in the end had won the game and forced the sick and dylog King to restore parliamentary govern-

ment.

So from the beginning-clghteen months ago King Farouk has hated Premier Nalias. And Nabas. knowing the boy's ideas, and the teaching he had no 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 once. by appointing the Chamberlain of his Household without even con- sulting the Premier-and by choos- ing for the post a politician, an ex-Premter, a possible future Pre- mier: All Maher Pasha,

Once again, as under Fund, there wun to be a sort of Palace-Cabinet, The King was to have his own ad- visers, other than the Ministers TC- sponsible to Parliament.

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Then Farouk began to interfere in Ministerial appointments, in Senatorial nominations. All very" cleverly within the letter of his constitutional rights: all supremely irritating to

to his Prime Minister, Next came a campaign of studied and calculated rudeness. HIG: Majesty refused to speak to His: Majesty's Prime Minister, except on the most formal and necessary' occasions.

"Unfortunately," said one very Interested spectator drily on one. occasion, they forgot to put an. article in the Constitution saying that the should be polite.to:

his JOTE

And so it goes on. Quite de-- liberately the King is trying CO make the position of the Cabinet Impossible, to goad Nahas into re- signation or some rash blunder then to denounce him na a would-- be dictator trying to bully a young: King.

N

AHAS and Makram have been patient to a fault.. 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 from the beginning.

been 700 arrests of suspected apt to fall back on rumours and IT'S THE ANIMAL IN US Park would be less popula agitators in a few days, includ-hear-say." That sort of thing

is deplorable in the eyes of of-!

ing, so one correspondnet said, ficlaldom; and yet the remedy is Says, Edward Kelly, four Japanese. So there was in the hands of the very people Who Knows How To

some foundation for the rum who make complaints. ours after all.

Keep The Wolf From The Door

By ED. KELLY, BEAST

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 1 famous Prime Minister did not prove capital city at one time that a satisfactory subject. But the "The bigger the man, the louder reporter was afraid to admit IT just shows that you

talks." To the uninitiated failure. So he wrote something the expression might be trans- ated thus: The more responsi

The

ble

can't be too careful.

mal starding naked

and em-

Two bad blunders they have

away from the horne, and left the made. In face of the King's atti- tude they should have kept the Wald solid at all costs. Instead, barrassed before us,

they have split it. They have quarrelled

With

two of their ablost colleagues—Nakrashi Pasha and Ahmed Maher Bey.

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 rises), one of the bearers proached with the news that there was an elephant of enormous pro-

portions hiding behind our heap

of skins.

of the

We hastened to have a look at like this: "The Government may We are referring, of the animal and saw that despite

its size it was no use na a speci fall to-morrow over the Treaty course, to the experience men, as it had fallen arches. Tho issue and there is a definite split last week of a local hiker ge beast 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 likely le he to have something to Prime Minister did not deny looking strangely like dogs. chest.

face with two wild animals back. we called for one

bearers to bring our medicine say and the chances are he will this grave situation when ques

The poor beart was suffering say it. But too often busy ex-tloned to-iny.

The We recall similar experiences

from catarrhi. After dosing it up, ecutives cannot be bothered with Government

when we were in Darkest Africa. did not fall and we were in the very darkest

we wrapped its chest in red flannel and sent on its way. questions of bustling journalists, there WBB no split among part of Darkest Africa, where Eight months after, as we were and leave their queries to some the Back Benehers; and there even the natives were dark. alanding on the wharf prepara subordniate who either does not is no record of the fate

tory to Railing from India, wo And the animals we encounter heard a loud trumpeting behind know the answerg or hesitates the reporter. Fortunately, few ed were the wildest we have over us, and looking around on the

keen. Sometimes they wero

same elephant coming towards us, 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 exterial in its trunk. sensational. The journalist is their guard against it. But howperience we once had with a bison. It had com to return the red

to

of

It was during the moulting sea- son, and as the maddened beast rushed at ua we grabbed it by the horns, or front handles, intending

left guessing. And because he much simpler It would be for Bison is the female for bosun. tumally 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-oficial ----information."Yes" or "No." --

flannel. An elephant, never for zeta.

matter of fact, ho sends usa Xosa card every Christmas. WELL WELL! WELLI

to throw it. nway. Imagine our Or, as we say in hunting cir- surprise when the skin, camo right cles: "Mine's a Tiger."

There is a Wald Opposition" to-day, which is more hostilo.to. Nahas than to the King. As a con- Requerico Nahas and Makram have fost a good deal of popularity; tho Ward has lost its solid hold on the country.

The Palace has a chance to play off one section against the other.

Becond blunder is the failure to dissolve that rather foolish or- ganisation the Blue Shirts." It gives his enemies opportunity to denounce Nahas as a would-be- Fascist dictator.

The Palace, demanding,duaòlu- tlon, can poso as champion of.. democracy and Tiborty.

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 Wald and its leaders on the country is firm and tested.

Farouk'a popularity is a quick. and shallow growth: nor has hla dynasty ever won the loyalty of the country. He would be well ad- vised, while there is yot tin.a,to heed the voico of Jimmy HassanI and to look for a way out from the situation he has created,

-To-day's Thought-

The power of kingas (if rightly.

understoods

Te but a grant from Heaven of'

doing good.

WILLIAM SOMERVILLE.