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Show EGYPT SEETHES IN NEW CRISIS CAIRO, Dec 30 Egypt was plunged today into the greatest political po-litical crisis of young King Farouk's 20-month reign when he dismissed Premier Mustapha Nahas Pasha and appointed Mohammed Mah-moud Mah-moud to form a new government. Mahmoud. 55 years old, Oxford educated and premier in 1928 and 1929, started drafting a new cabinet, cabi-net, then decided to dissolve par- liament and hold elections within two months The long feud between the palace and the government of the wafdist (nationalist! premier already had resulted in a atrike of 10 000 government govern-ment railway workera in Cairo, just ended. It was understood that preparations prepara-tions had been made to move British, Brit-ish, troops to Egypt from Palestine in event of an emergency ostensibly osten-sibly to protect British interests. King Farouk dismissed the Nahas regime for "governing illegally." Mahmoud was forming a coalition coali-tion cabinet made up of opposition leaders and omitting members of the hitherto dominant wafdist party par-ty led by the former premier. The determined move by the 18-year-old monarch waa designed to end a long "constitutional crisis" between him and the Nahas government. gov-ernment. Mahmoud drafted decree dissaving dis-saving ail "aiara shirt" organ. nations. It was aimed principally at the wafd youth group, the blue-shirts, blue-shirts, who have been the main source of grievance between King Farouk and Nahas. Wafdiats called a meeting tonight to decide on future fu-ture action. The greenshirts already had been dissolved, after an attempt to kill Nahas. Police arrested B0 purported agitators. |