Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British General Election fell last week Egypt's so-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...
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...
...dredgers had completed the job of deepening the 100-mi, long ditch through the shifting sand of the Sinai Desert from 33 to 34 ft., to oblige primarily big Australian freighters, incidentally the British Navy. *Wafd means "delegation." The party takes its name from the delegation led by Zaghlul Pasha to Paris in 1919 to voice Egyptian Nationalist aspirations at the Peace Conference...
...Italian intervention in Ethiopia does not affect seriously our interests cried Sidky Pasha. "We received all kinds of assurances that Italy would not touch our ancient rights. ... We do not feel an; danger from Italy. ... We must realize with sad hearts that our country being treated in this affair as a colony populated with primitive peoples who have to bow without an understanding of everything imposed upon them! Ready enough to start bowing himself Sidky Pasha larded into his speech coy hints that Egypt must continue under Britain's thumb but should have her official "free and independent" status...
Concluded Sidky Pasha, fairly wriggling to be bribed, "We would like such an alliance, if we got compensations...