Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unobtrusively as possible last week, young Egyptian Wafdists (Nationalists) wheeled barrows full of brickbats through the alleys of Alexandria, dumped them handily near Mehemet Ali Square and in the backyards of buildings along the famed Sheif Pasha (Alexandria's "Fifth Ave-nue"). So far as the napping authorities knew all that was going to happen was "Two Hours of Silence...
...bill King Fuad refused to sign would have prevented a repetition of the 1928 coup d'état, when the puppet monarch dissolved Parliament and ruled with a puppet government headed by Mohamed Mahmud Pasha (TIME, July 30, 1928). Defied, wrathful Nahas Pasha replied to his sovereign by resigning and then- against all precedent-marched back into Parliament and, although no longer Prime Minister, asked and received a tempestuous vote of confidence...
Four days later King Fuad, after consulting his British advisers, appointed one Ismail Sidky Pasha of the minute Ittihadist (pro-Palace) party to be Prime Minister. Everyone knew that this cabinet would fall the moment Sidky Pasha showed his nose in Parliament, but he did noi show...
...refused to sign would have made it a crime to govern Egypt thus by decree, would have rendered the new Prime Minister and members of his cabinet liable as criminals to crushing fines and life imprisonment. Last week though cowed into discretion by the imminence of British guns, Nahas Pasha embarked upon a bold, quasi-revolutionary course...
Cried one deputy, "the people are ready to crush the biggest head in this country!'' -presumably King Fuad's. In a long and passionate oration ex-Prime Minister Nahas Pasha sounded unmistakably the note that Egypt now faces the supreme crisis: King v. Country. "The Constitution," he cried, "can no longer be allowed to remain the plaything of those who wish to deprive Egypt of her liberty...