Word: fawzi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon afterward, the ambassador returned to Cairo to voice his protest in person to Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi. Fawzi cut him short by pointing out that diplomatic protocol permits a non grata ambassador to see a Foreign Minister for only one reason-to say goodbye. Spluttering Tugay thereupon gave a farewell banquet to which not one Egyptian was invited. "You will not see me again in this dirty place," he told his guests...
Besides, two could play at the ancient game of Going to Jerusalem. Two C-47s landed on the Arab side of divided Jerusalem, bearing Premier Fawzi Mulki and the entire Jordan cabinet. After a three-hour session in Government House, only 700 yards from the armistice line, the ministers announced that henceforth Jordan's cabinet would split their session between Amman and Jerusalem. Cried Premier Mulki: "From this day on, Jerusalem has become the second capital of Jordan...
Facing them across the table will be Egypt's top team: Premier Mohammed Naguib, Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, and four men from the Free Officers' Committee. But the British have an idea that the most important man they face is a lean young field officer, just turned 35, who does not even hold cabinet rank...
...France (as did Lebanon) in 1946. Democracy hardly had a chance to get started there; land-grabbing rich and ambitious politicians quickly brought chaos to the promising land. Shishekly's first step in December was to jail all rival top politicians and install his right-hand man, Colonel Fawzi Selo, in all their places. Two months later he issued the first of a blizzardlike series of nearly 200 government decrees which turned Syria virtually inside...
...Attassi, former Syrian nationalist leader who was unanimously elected president by Parliament in Sept. 1950. This week, murmuring appropriate thanks to Attassi for his integrity, Shishekly issued "Communique No. 2," tossing Attassi out of the presidency, and dissolving parliament. Then he reached into his vest pocket for a Colonel Fawzi Silo, whom he installed as chief of state, Premier and defense minister, pending "restoration of normal parliamentary life...