Word: hassani
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last week, he was getting ready to meet Queen Frederika at Athens' Hassani airport; the Queen was his special favorite-he had once referred to her, within King Paul's hearing, with a Greek phrase that can be translated as "quite a dish." Sophoulis, as he was dressing, said to his housekeeper: "When I was ill the Queen came to see me and brought me flowers. She is so sweet." A few minutes later, death, as it must to all men, came to Themistocles Sophoulis. King Paul asked Right-Winger Constantin Tsaldaris, now Foreign Minister, to succeed...
...General Catroux had a prescription: a promise of post-war independence. But to President Attasi the Fighting French were political nobodies; he refused to negotiate with them. Ousting Attasi and his ministers, Catroux named as president a Syrian whose chief virtue was his willingness to negotiate: Mohammed Tageddine el Hassani. A flimsy, stopgap government, el Hassani's had little popular support, left Syrian Nationalists free to ogle the Axis...
President Mohammed. In Syria last week Free French General Georges Catroux declared that France's mandate was over, that Syria henceforth would be an independent republic. Named by the Free French as the new republic's first President was a 55-year-old jurist, Mohammed Tageddine el Hassani...
...Mohammed, as he picked Syria's first Cabinet, was a problem of another kind from that which beset Iran's Mohammed. No European powers were at the moment threatening his new republic, but there was plenty of dissatisfaction at home. For five years moonfaced, religious Mohammed el Hassani had haunted Paris, trying to be appointed Governor of Syria. His bowing and scraping to the French did not make him popular, particularly with Syria's ardent nationalists. Syrians last week looked for plenty of squalls as he tried to set up his Government...