Word: makram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carlos Garcia of the Philippine delegation had been hiding in the hills only a few months ago. Egypt's Makram Ebeid Pasha was a political prisoner until last fall. Yugoslavia's Foreign Minister Ivan Subasich had been a war exile in the U.S. Belgium's Socialist Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak brought along an old parliamentary enemy, now a fast friend-Communist Albert Marteaux, Minister of Health...
...from disturbing was the political situation which exploded in the midst of Rommel's advance. Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha and his old friend and Finance Minister, Makram Ebeid Pasha, broke up in a thunderous...
Nahas and Makram, No. 1 and No. 2 men in the Wafd Party which dominates Egypt, had loved each other for 20 years. The cause of their quarrel was profound. Shrewd, 66-year-old Nahas felt that he needed to concentrate authority in one hand-his own-to get his country through the impending crisis. So he took back from Finance Minister Makram certain powers which he had once bestowed. Makram, hurt, became so obstreperous that Nahas kicked...
People leaped to the conclusion that the upheaval spelled new anguish for the British. They thought Makram might join anti-Nahas groups. They thought of an Egyptian convulsion right at the moment Rommel was eating his way toward the Nile...
...last week the most serious result was a minuscule opposition bloc which Makram set up within the Wafd Party. Nahas was still sitting on the lid, unshaken, still carrying out a policy of 1) maintaining the integrity and independence of Egypt and 2) sticking to the letter and spirit of the cordial Anglo-Egyptian Alliance. Last week, Nahas Pasha's Egypt maintained a sphinxlike calm...