Word: mustafa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still awaiting trial are at least 32 more Egyptians, including the once powerful Premier Mustafa el Nahas, and Hafez Afifi, onetime chief of Farouk's royal cabinet. The military rulers had apparently decided that if they are to give Egypt the stability that Kemal Ataturk gave Turkey (see p. 58), they must deal as sternly as he did with the opposition...
...special three-officer revolutionary tribunal, made it supreme over all other courts, empowered it to hand down death sentences on traitors, rounded up scores of suspects and began trying them this week. Among the arrested: two ex-Premiers of the Farouk era, including the discredited Wafdist chief, Mustafa Nahas...
...Wafdist regime had been making ready to concede much more to Britain than the present government; this was a clear indication that the Revolutionary Council was about ready to come to terms on a good, sound Suez deal. Grimacing from behind his dark glasses, Salem mimicked old Mustafa Nahas, and the crowd, in stitches, shouted the Arabic equivalent of "Give 'em hell, Salem!" At his elbow sat Premier Mohammed Naguib, offering encouragement...
...weeks ago, Egypt's two strong men swore mighty oaths. Mustafa el Nahas, the old (75) pro, five times Prime Minister, since 1927 chief of the powerful and corrupt Wafd Party, vowed: "No power after God can force me from this position except the people." General Mohammed Naguib, the new Prime Minister, proclaimed a law requiring Egypt's political parties to purge themselves of corrupt leaders, and vowed: "The law is sacred, and will be applied to Mustafa el Nahas as to anyone else...
When the investigator left, Madame Nahas called in her husband. There is a time to quit, just as there is a time to fight, she said. Her money was running out; she could no longer pay for Mustafa el Nahas' 20 secretaries. The next morning Nahas, once Egypt's greatest political force, was a trembling, powerless old man. The Naguib revolution rolled...