Word: momen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake Success a few hours later, Egyptian zealots in the gallery disturbed the peace of the Security Council itself. Cried bearded, red-fezzed Mustafa Momen from his place in the front row: "I have a document here written with blood .... Justice for our people!" Guards rushed him out; the startled Council resumed debate on the Egyptian case. But a few minutes later, when another galleryite, Ahmed Kamel Kotb, had to be ejected for shouting "Down with imperialism! Long live the Nile Valley! . . ." the Security Council decided to quit for the week...
Another Renaissance. A Burman justice named Chow Mien, leading a delegation notable for magenta skirts and orange Aunt Jemima turbans, took up Nehru's song of independence from the white man's rule. So did Mustapha Momen of the Arab League, whose delegates represented distant Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia. Said he: "Liberty has dawned and the world is destined to witness another renaissance in Asia." The first voice which had raised a war cry of "Asia for the Asiatics" was missing. Japan was not represented because, said Nehru, "Japanese are not allowed to leave their country...