EGYPTIAN CABINET

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25021, 11 October 1944, Page 5

EGYPTIAN CABINET

13 MEMBERS CHOSEN NAHAS PASHA'S STATEMENT rßcrd. 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 10 The new Prime Minister of Egypt, Dr Ahmed Maher. has completed the formation of his Cabinet and will submit the names of his Ministers to the King for his approval. The new Prime Minister has already appointed a Military Governor of Egypt. He states that the* goal of his Government is democratic. and it is believed that he will work in close collaboration with Britain. A later message says that Dr Ahmed Maher's Cabinet consists of 13 members, representing all parties except Nahas Pasha's Wafdists. Nahas Pasha, leader of the dismissed Egyptian Cabinet, when interviewed by the British United Press correspondent in Cairo, said he was not surprised at his dismissal from the Prime Ministership. He added that there had been a long period of friction with King Farouk. ' "My conscience is clear," he stated, ! "because I did my duty fully toward Egypt and the Arab world. Governmental responsibilities did not enable me to come out openly as a fighter for democracy. I am now free to take up joyfully the struggle for liberty and democracy, not only for Egypt, but also for humanity." Asked if the suspension of the Director of Public Security was the real reason for the crisis. Nahas Pasha banged his table and cried: "It was only a pretext to dismiss the Ministry. The fundamental issue is the clash between democracy and autocracy." ART RIOT IN PARIS PICTURES THROWN IN AIR (Reed. 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 10 Paris is getting back to normal, says the British United Press correspondent in the French capital. It has had its first riot about art since its liberation. The uproar occurred when 100 young men demonstrated against the famous painter Picasso in a room housing an exhibition of 80 of his paintings at the Autumn Salon. They tore down the canvases and threw them in the air. Other spectators tried to stop them. Three pictures disappeared in the melee. Two were later recovered, but one called "Life and Death's Head" is still missing. The riot lasted three-quar-ters of an hour before the police closed the room and put the pictures on the back wall. This was Picasso's first exhibition since the occupation of France. He has worked secretly since 1940. NEW ZEALAND HOUSE BONUS TO STAFF MEMBERS (Special Correspondent) LONDON. Oct. 0 Two hundred members of the staff of New Zealand House have receiveQ a bonus to defray expenses of bomb damage to their homes, and also as a token of the New Zealand Government's uppreciation of their loyal service during the trying period of the blitz and , flying bomb attacks. , Married men have received £25, and sther members of the staff £ls. The jonus is payable to those who were on ihe staff oerore January, 1944. The majority of members of the stafE , lad their homes damaged, one man's louse suffering from bomb blast no ! ewer than nine times. The decision to grant the bonus was nade by Cabinet after the High Com- , nissioner, Mr W. J. Jordan, had made ' ;he suggestion.to Mr Eraser, during the Prime Minister's recent visit to Britain. , THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE MELBOURNE, Oct. 10 1 Permission has been granted Colonel tlcCormick to publish in Australia a J pecified number of copies of his news- 1 taper, the Chicago Tribune, for issue in American operational areas in the South-west Pacific. Senator R. Y. Keane, Minister of Customs, did not announce the number ' if copies that may be published, but i aid the issue would be exclusively for i he American forces. Asked whether 1 mblication was subject to Australian ( ensorship, Senator Keane said an i mdertaking had been given on several 1 oints, including the question of the i tribune's anti-British sentiment. f