Word: hafez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still awaiting trial are at least 32 more Egyptians, including the once powerful Premier Mustafa el Nahas, and Hafez Afifi, onetime chief of Farouk's royal cabinet. The military rulers had apparently decided that if they are to give Egypt the stability that Kemal Ataturk gave Turkey (see p. 58), they must deal as sternly as he did with the opposition...
...produces speedy and tangible benefits for Egypt's people. In his first statement as Premier, he promised: "One of the first plans we shall carry out is limitation of land possession and [reduction of] prices." To help him carry out his promise, he appointed a Deputy Premier-Soliman Hafez, an able, progressive lawyer-and an all-civilian Cabinet of 15 experts, only three of them politicians...
...royal hand in the squabble before it was too late. To his personal royal cabinet he named two men whose foreign policy runs directly counter to the Wafdists'. Into office as chief of the royal cabinet (which has no explicit powers, but advises the King) went Dr. Hafez Ann Pasha, Ambassador to Great Britain from 1936 to 1938 (and admiring author of The English in Their Homes), lately head of the Bank Misr, one of the largest financial houses in the Arab world. In as royal adviser on foreign affairs went Old Oxonian Abdel Fattah Amr Pasha (TIME...