Word: nessim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Britain's puppet, Premier Nessim abolished Puppet King Fuad's tyrannous Constitution of 1930 but he has failed to restore the slightly more liberal Constitution of 1923. There was only a little outward grumbling when Britain poured a vast arsenal of planes and troops into Egypt last month (TIME, Nov. 4). What happened last week was that the Egyptian Nationalists of the overwhelming majority Wafd* Party saw its chance to bargain with the British Empire for greater freedom...
...called Independence Day, anniversary of the day in 1918 when "Egypt's violent Gandhi," the late great Zaghlul Pasha, demanded Egyptian independence at the British Residency in Cairo. Zaghlul's successor is bulky, big-voiced Wafdist Chief Mustafa Nahas Pasha. He has been telling Premier Nessim, that even if the Premier is obliged to let the British fill Egypt with anti-Italian arms, he ought to demand in exchange concessions that will take Egypt a little nearer real independence. Last week the potent Wafd learned with fury that Britain will not let them have even such a slight...
...Nations and therefore cannot squawk at Geneva. King Fuad is a fat, docile puppet. The farce that Egypt is an "independent kingdom" has been played so long that everyone has his lines pat (TIME, Dec. 10). But last week Egyptians boiled with demands that their lickspit Premier Tewfik Nessim Pasha should at least make the turning to Alexandria into Britain's main Mediterranean war base the occasion for wangling some heavy palm oil out of his and Egypt's master, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson. British High Commissioner to the Inde pendent Kingdom of Egypt...
Wangling his hardest, Premier Nessim chattered to reporters: "These matters of defense and politics have reached then most delicate stage...