![]() ![]() Two lives brutally terminated, not at the warfront but on a sleepy Zamalek Sreet, a few meters from Africa's foremost polo and cricket fields.īy the time anyone realized what had happened, the terrorists would have made it safely back to Palestine via a prearranged safe house on the other side of town. The Right Honorable British Minister and his driver Lance-Corporal Fuller were shot at point blank range as they got out of their official car. ![]() At the worse of times this was manned by a bicycled constable.įor sure the victims never stood a chance. The quiet neighborhood consisted of a handful of villas and a tiny police complement where Hassan Sabry Streets intersects Gezira. Having stalked the place for the past few days, they were familiar with both the surroundings and their intended victim's military-like routine. They had just returned from Grey Pillars in Garden City where Moyne coordinated the British and Allied war efforts in the Middle East from his offices in the handsome three-story building at No. According to Artemis Cooper, author of Cairo During the War, Wavel's wife-Momo Kahn-had "transformed the house adding opulent oak doors and paneling, an assortment of white furniture, large fishbowls full of white flowers, and a sunken bathtub fit for a Roman emperor."īut there was no Roman emperor at home on 6 November 1944, only the scion of the Guiness Beer empire and his young driver. Prior to Moyne, the Rococo villa had been occupied by General Sir Archibald Wavell and Brigadier John Marriott. Like many prosperous Zamalek residents, Ades was quick to cash in on a booming wartime real-estate market. 6 Hassan Sabry Street (today al-Abd Bldg which houses the Four Corners Restaurants) belonging to entrepreneur Maurice Ades. The first Baron Moyne occupied the posts of Minister of Agriculture, Colonial Secretary, Leader of the House of Lords and finally Minister of State and British Government representative in Cairo. ![]() Edmunds from 1907-1931, Walter Edward Guinness was raised to a peerage in 1932. Your pain his gain !!!Īmong the first batch of historic blue plaques to be mounted in Zamalek is one that says "Lord Moyne (1880-1944) British Minister of State was murdered on this site by two Stern Gang terrorists on November 6."Īn MP for Bury St. Several of my articles on Garden City were plagiarized word for word by novelist MEKKAWI SAID (winner of the Egyptian State price for literature!!!!) and re-published under his own name in a three-part series in El-Masry El-Youm daily in September 2015.Ĭheers to our "talented" literature prize awardee. Lord Moyne egy.com suggests following articles VILLA PRINCESS FAWZIA. ![]()
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