Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Occidentals are aware of Mustafa Nahass Pasha, a statesman who greatly resembles in appearance plump, black-mustachioed King Fuad I of Egypt. Politically the King and Pasha are poles apart?the Sovereign a British puppet, the statesman a firebrand Egyptian Nationalist. Therefore it is significant that, last week, King Fuad gave the Prime Ministry of Egypt to Mustafa Nahass Pasha...
When Sarwat fell, the majority party (Nationalist or Wafd) once more set up the rightful majority claim of its leader, Nahass Pasha, to be called to the Prime Ministry. Such a call would have come as a matter of course but for British dominance in Egypt. It finally came, last week, only after the British High Commissioner to Egypt, Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, had convinced himself that force would be needed to impose another puppet Prime Minister upon Egypt and that for the moment force is inopportune...
Accordingly Mustafa Nahass Pasha has been suffered to become Prime Minister, as an experiment. Urged by his Nationalist convictions, he went before Parliament with the following program: 1) Rejection of the treaty of "alliance" in its present form; 2) Maintenance in the Sudan of Egyptian rights which are now being quietly usurped by Britain; 3) Determination to "admit of no encroachment upon the independence, honor, or sovereignty of Egypt...
Though these phrases rang out against Britain, observers were confident that no effective steps to enforce them could be taken by fledgling Prime Minister Nahass. True he is the successor of the late famed Zaghlul Pasha who forged and created the Wafd; but Nahass Pasha, wafded into power, is scarcely a match for lean-limbed, steely-eyed Baron Lloyd...
...Zaghlul, widow of the great anti-British statesman Zaghlul Pasha (1860-1927), was active at Cairo last week in checking ill-timed anti-British riots by Members of his party, the Wafd. She and servants played a fire hose on certain rioters. Others, unchecked, lost their heads so completely that they mistook for an Englishman and attacked the Principal of the American College outside of Cairo, Dr. Charles P. Russel of Hastings, Neb. At him was thrown acid which burned him, though not dangerously...