Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Egypt festered ominously last week. With mobs continuing to scream "Down with England!" the combined British Navy and Air Force, concentrated in & off Alexandria's matchless harbor, staged a "midnight attack" with British battle planes thundering overhead...
...quarters of ships of all descriptions beginning to resent the tension of inactivity they are under without visible cause. They have been deprived not only of leave to go home but also of shore leave in the ports where they are now stationed. This has been particularly necessary at Alexandria, Egypt, where the population is far from friendly to the British at present...
...oblique answer to such Egyptian talk, Great Britain last week invited some Egyptian princes and Premier Nessim Pasha aboard the British cruisers Berwick and Ajax to watch demonstrations of Might off the harbor of Alexandria by 60 British war boats, 60 British warplanes...
...Egyptian populace these British arrivals were as welcome as Italians in Ethiopia. British troops surged up from Suez and Alexandria, through Cairo all week on their way to reinforce British garrisons in Western Egypt and the Sudan...
...Fuad is a fat, docile puppet. The farce that Egypt is an "independent kingdom" has been played so long that everyone has his lines pat (TIME, Dec. 10). But last week Egyptians boiled with demands that their lickspit Premier Tewfik Nessim Pasha should at least make the turning to Alexandria into Britain's main Mediterranean war base the occasion for wangling some heavy palm oil out of his and Egypt's master, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson. British High Commissioner to the Inde pendent Kingdom of Egypt...