Word: mullah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mullah. As Churchill's personal chief of staff during World War II, "Pug" Ismay knew, Churchill later wrote, "exactly how my mind was working from day to day." He patiently stayed up night after night, adjusting himself to Churchill's "nocturnal hours, went with Churchill to Casablanca, Cairo, Moscow, Teheran and Yalta. "The man with the oilcan," top Allied leaders called him. "When he's around, the wheels turn...
...Ismay was born in India, and raised to be a soldier. After Sandhurst, he served in the Punjab, and in World War I successfully led a camel corps in Somaliland against the fanatical forces of the "Mad Mullah" Mohammed Ibn Abdullah. Churchill first saw and admired Ismay during England's near-revolutionary general strike in 1926. Ismay, then on the Imperial Defense Committee, called out the territorial army to help put the strike down. Churchill signaled him to his side when he became Prime Minister...
...Preposterous!" exploded the Shah. Ala scampered back and told Mossadegh that the Shah had refused to accept the resignation. That put a crimp in any designs the conscientious young (32) Shah might have had. Mossadegh said he was still determined to resign. The religious leader, Mullah Kashani, arrived and urged the Premier to reconsider. You can't, he urged, leave the people in their hour of need. A few hours later, the whole cabinet assembled at the Premier's home. They argued, they reasoned, they pleaded, they begged. At long last, Mossadegh gave in. He had decided...
...week's end, some 200 members of the fanatical Fedayan Islam charged through Teheran's streets to the Shah Mosque, knifing six policemen on the way, shouting: "Stokes, take your proposal to the grave with you." Mullah Kashani, spiritual leader of the terrorists, unblinkingly told Stokes, who came to pay a call: "Tell the British government that if Dr. Mossadeq deviates one iota from oil nationalization, the Iranian people will dispatch him to the next world...