Word: nessim
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...names they will then hear read off will be Mahmoud Fakry Pasha, Mohammed Tewfik Nessim Pasha and Adly Yeghen Pasha. The last is dead. One of King Fuad's last acts was to nominate as substitute his nephew, Prince Mohammed Ali, to head the Council of Regents...
...oblique answer to such Egyptian talk, Great Britain last week invited some Egyptian princes and Premier Nessim Pasha aboard the British cruisers Berwick and Ajax to watch demonstrations of Might off the harbor of Alexandria by 60 British war boats, 60 British warplanes...
...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...
Next morning, on Egypt's ironic "Independence Day," young men of Cairo went howling through the streets: "Down with Britain! Down with Hoare! Down with Premier Nessim Pasha! We want the 1923 Constitution...