ATTITUDE OF KING FARUQ TOWARD POLITICAL PERSONALITIES AND PARTIES

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Attitude of King Faruq toward
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King Faruq?s present attitude toward the below-listed
political personalities is as followst
an Fu lad Siraj?-al Din Pasha? Minister of the Interior. The King at
present holds Siraj=al Din in great esteem? He looks on him
without doubt as the Prime Minister ?s right. handur+n and. should
Tahhas Pasha retire a the King would expect Sira j 'al. Din to
assume the post of Prime Minister, and would Live him full
aupport
b,, !'Ali Zaki a?''Orabi Pasha, President of the Senate. Faruq likes
Zaki al-Arabi, but has no intention of giving him any important
-position in the future.
c., Ibrahim ?Abd-al-Nadi Pasha, leader of. the Saadists The King is
particularly bitter against ?Abdmal--Nadi? He feels that the
Natter, as an ex=Prima Minister, should have been the last
person to indulge in attacks such as those that he has made
against the King's entourage.
do liusayn Sirri Pasha? ex--President of the Senate. The King is
still bitter against Sirri and this feeling is reciprocated.
Although Mahmud Ghazali .Bey, Governor of Cairo and a great
Iriend of Sirri Pasha. is said to be trying to persuade the
British that Sirri is still a future possibility as Prime
Minister, there is no doubt that the King would never accept
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='., Relations between Faruq and the Opposition parties
are as follows
The Liberal Constitutionalists? in particular `Ali Alluba Pasha
and Ahmtad Muhammad Khashaba Pasha,. are anxious to get back into
royal favor a Faruq,, however a, is quite determined that the
Opposition parties are to remain in disgrace until they stop the
press campaign against him and his entourage and make an open
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apology, sign the palace register; when these are done?
four or five Opposition members may become senators.
h, The Saadi,*ts so far have shown no desire to gat back into the
J'ing as favor,
25X1X Farug9s attitude toward allegations of discontent in the armed forces S~
the following,
a. The King is well aware that there is dissatisfaction in the
armed forces and that morale is not what it should be;
however a he is convinced that he need have no fear of their
lo;ralty'
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