Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order on his own responsibility while Governor of Bombay the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi, potent agitator. To Lord Lloyd's Cairo tea party there came an old and broken statesman who knew the British Baron's mettle. The 66-year-old statesman was Saad Zaghlul Pasha, leader of the Egyptian Wafd, a party which had just been returned to Parliament with a two to one majority. (TIME, June...
...luncheon where spirits ran low. All were acutely conscious that the battleship Resolution was steaming toward Port Said from the British naval base at Malta. All knew that British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain had just cabled in especially imperious vein* to the impotent Egyptian government. When Zaghlul Pasha rose, all emotion, the Wafd beheld how Pyrrhic was its victory...
Egyptians streamed to the polls last week and proclaimed by their ballots exactly in what low esteem they hold the "Palace Cabinet" of Ahmed Ziwar Pasha. The potent Wafd, the party of Zaghlul, scored a smashing victory, secured 166 Deputies (out of 215) as opposed to 176 in the elections of 1924 and 101 in the elections of 1925. But the "Palace Party" (Unionist), which appeared for the first time at the polls last week, was so utterly repudiated as to obtain but five seats in the Chamber, two of them being disputed...
...immediate result of last week's elections was to precipitate fresh agitation for the resignation of Ziwar as Premier and the installation of a Wafd Ministry. The Wafd's "grand old man," Saad Zaghlul Pasha, 66 (TIME, May 24), has, however, suffered marked ill health for some time and, despite his personal popularity, has failed thus far to rally Egyptians against the British with sufficient solidarity to force his return?as Premier...
...received only $5,000 up to the time of his death (1923). The Zaghlulist Wafd subsequently repudiated the entire debt on the ground that Zaghlul's agent was not empowered to make any such arrangement with Mr. Folk. Per contra, the Folk attorneys contended that Zaghlul Pasha and his agent, Mohamed Mahmoud Pasha, did authoritatively represent "the Egyptian nation" in 1919. Zaghlul, famed as "the first native Egyptian Premier (1924) since Cleopatra's day," was, in 1919, President of the Egyptian delegation to the Peace Conference. Both before and after that year he rallied Egyptians about him with...