Word: cherif
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...Parliament had the right to reject these names and it unanimously did so. It thereupon chose Prince Mohammed Ali for president of the Regency Council, as Fuad had planned, and two other men who would probably have been acceptable to the late King. They were his brother-in-law, Cherif Sabry Pasha, 41, athletic Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, and onetime Foreign Minister and Minister to Great Britain General Aziz Izzet Pasha. Not by accident was the Council loaded with foreign affairs experts, for Egypt's most important pending business is the negotiation of a new treaty with Britain...