... Egyptian people collectively with almost nothing. This hit the Egyptian farmer, or fellahin, the hardest due to the fact that these people encompassed the majority of the population. "When the war ended, the discontent it had spawned created a simmering restlessness at all levels of Egyptian society. Among ... of independence was the British insistence to maintain a monarch, which the educated Egyptians leading the independence movement viewed as an extension of colonial British rule and a body who would adhere to the demands of the British government. "King Fuad died in 1936 and was suc...

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