EGYPTIAN ELECTIONS
“ A TRAGIC MOCKERY ” ALLEGATIONS BY NAHAS PASHA PREVENTED FROM VOTING United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copy: ;ht LONDON, April 4 “I was dragged from my motor-car and prevented from voting, while police and troops stood by and did not interfere,” said Nahas Pasha, former Prime Minister of Egypt and leader of the Wafd Party, in a telephone interview with the Daily Herald. Nahas Pasha added: "The elections were a tragic mockery, a mere barefaced criminal plot. The' members of the Wafd Party were not permuted to approach the voting urns and frequently were prevented by force.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20466, 5 April 1938, Page 7
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97EGYPTIAN ELECTIONS Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20466, 5 April 1938, Page 7
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