Word: khalek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smell of Roast Camel. Little more than 24 hours after the Gromyko-Dulles conversation, Fawzi outlined his scheme to his fellow Arabs in the Hotel Pierre suite of Abdel Khalek Hassouna, Secretary-General of the Arab League, a moribund outfit invented in 1945 by the British and captured by the Egyptians. Fawzi's audience-the representatives of the eight Arab League nations* plus Tunisia and Morocco-personified all the quarrels which have rent the Arab world for 40 years. And some of the quarrels persisted at the meeting. But before long the beauty of Fawzi's plan...
...thereby the Middle East -under Egyptian leadership. As the Arab League delegates assembled in Cairo last week they were eager for a glimpse of the new strongman. He promptly snowed his hand, told Azzam to resign or be fired. Smiling, tarbooshed Azzam resigned. His successor: British-educated Abdel Khalek Hassouna, 53, onetime Egyptian Foreign Minister...
June 20, on a train speeding from Alexandria to Cairo, Foreign Minister Abdel-Khalek Hassouna Pasha entered Premier Hilaly's compartment with disquieting news: an important ex-government official and crony of King Farouk, acting for the powerful Wafd Party, had called on U.S. Ambassador Caffery and offered to make a deal. Its substance: the Wafd would reverse itself completely and support the State Department's pet project, the Middle East Command. In return, the U.S. embassy had to use its influence with King Farouk to get Hilaly fired and the Wafd returned to office. Reason...