Word: mahmud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much longer! It will not last 25 years. I promise you that!" While Mme. Garzouzi spoke in Manhattan, her countrymen were echoing her words with action. The intense Nationalistic Wafd party ("Egypt for the Egyptians"), violently opposed to the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, forced the resignation of Prime Minister Mohamed Mahmud Pasha, puppet dictator, chief Egyptian negotiator of the Treaty. Plump, passive King Fuad invited neutral Adly Pasha Yeghen, twice Prime Minister, to form a "temporary" cabinet, permitted him to restore the parliamentary regime. The new leader immediately announced that in the coming universal-suffrage elections the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty question...
...diplomatically accepted. Promptest of all was Oxford University, which was to make Ambassador Dawes a Doctor of Civil Law almost immediately on his arrival. Simultaneously receiving the same degree would be Spanish Ambassador Alfonso Merry del Val, brother of the urbane and genial Cardinal, and Egyptian Prime Minister Mohamed Mahmud Pasha...
...Majesty Ahmed Fuad of course declared that he was acting by advice of Prime Minister Mohamed Mahmud Pasha. London correspondents even learned at the British Foreign Office that officials were "surprised" by the developments in Egypt. The transparent facts of the case appear when it is recalled that Prime Minister Mahmud Pasha commands the support of exactly 28 Deputies in the Egyptian Chamber of 210-that is to say he does not represent the country at all. The previous Prime Minister, Mustafa iNahas Pasha, recently and curtly dismissed by King Fuad, retains the support of 170 Deputies. Last week...
From the League of Nations anti-slavery office it was announced during the week that H. H. Beglar Begi Mir bir Mahmud Khan, Wali of Kalat, cooperating with the Government of India, has abolished slavery in the Kalat district of Baluchistan, remote Indian province. Formerly male and female slaves have been so absolutely the property of their owners in Kalat that two mated slaves were sometimes refused even sustenance by their master, forced to shift for themselves, and then any children which they might manage to bring up were finally seized by the original master as they reached...
...received Mahmud Samy Pasha, the new Minister from Egypt, who came to present credentials...