Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final blaze of glory when two men in officer's uniforms emerged from the officers' mess at Mosul airport. Taking seats on a bench overlooking the field they watched the light dim in the west. One of the two was Irak's dictator, General Bakri Sidki Pasha, waiting for a plane to fly to Turkey to witness Turkish army maneuvers. The other was his righthandman, Major Mohamed Ali Jawdat, commander of Irak's air force. In the gathering darkness their cigarets glowed peacefully. A soldier sidled near and suddenly appeared from the shadows, revolver in hand...
Since no precedents existed to guide His Majesty's Government, plans for last week's ceremony were evolved in last-minute haste by tubby little Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha. To make up his mind on one point he telephoned from Cairo, Egypt to Vichy, France where an eminent expert on protocol was taking a water cure. The question was whether to crown His Majesty with the golden fillet once worn by Ancient Egypt's King Tutankhamen and only unearthed in recent years. This was a good idea, except that Mohammedan sovereigns are never crowned, and Premier...
Cylindrical red fezzes on their heads, Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha of Egypt and nine other Egyptian delegates marched down the aisle of the League of Nations' new Geneva palace last week to bow stiffly before Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras, temporary President of the League Assembly. The occasion was the formal admission of Egypt as the 61st nation to become a full-fledged member of the League. Most graceful of the 20 speeches of welcome came from Britain's dandified Anthony Eden...
...promise about "capitulations," gathered together representatives of the twelve capitulatory powers, including the U. S., in the hotel at Montreux, Switzerland where last July the Powers agreed to restore the Dardanelles to Turkey (TIME, July 27). Master of ceremonies was Egypt's ambitious Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha...
Read the Putsch Pasha's communique: "His Majesty the King Has requested me to discharge the present Government and form another Ministry under Hikmat Bey Suleiman [a creature of the Pasha's] . . . our Movement has no object except realization of the happiness of the people . . . our mission is the will of the King...