Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British bombing planes used to keep Irak quiet, but last week Irak bombers were used by the Army's ruthless pan-Arab Major General Bakri Sidki Pasha to effect his putsch. He kept them circling over Bagdad for two hours, perfunctorily bombarded the Ministry Offices, and then issued a communique hanging around the neck of the 24-year-old King Ghazi responsibility for the change of Cabinet which by then had taken place...
Died. Ahmed Tewfik Pasha, 91, Turkish statesman, last (1919-22) Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Sultanate; in Istanbul...
Although he gives only limited sketches of individuals, Bernstorff mentions in passing that the Archduchess Luisa was "more of a case for Sigmund Freud than for the historian," that Prince Max could only sleep with the assistance of powerful narcotics. His best portrait is of his friend Talaat Pasha, Grand Vizier of Turkey, a gentle cynic who, when pressed about the Armenian question, would suggest that it was solved since there were no Armenians left. Anxious to have Turkey represented at an international Socialist Congress, Talaat was embarrassed to find that there were no Turkish Socialists either. He appointed three...
...crisis in a nutshell, the Arabs on strike demand the cessation of Jewish immigration to Palestine and have put British High Commissioner General Sir Arthur Grenfell null sufficiently on the spot to make him welcome mediation between Britons and Arabs by the Foreign Minister of Iraq, Nuri Pasha as Said. This Moslem statesman sent up a trial balloon to test Christian public opinion by letting it be known in Jerusalem that he thought the British were on the point of closing the immigration gates of Palestine with a new policy of "No More Jews," temporarily at least. No sooner...
...just before he went to bed he presided in the magnificent "Locarno Room" of the British Foreign Office at the signing of a new Treaty of Alliance between Britain and Egypt (see cut). Some five months of expert drafting produced this pact and to get Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha in a frame of mind to sign it has been the triumph of British High Commissioner for Egypt Sir Miles Lampson. Many London papers called him "The Prince of Pacificators"-this accolade reputedly having been bestowed by Sir Austen Chamberlain, Knight of the Garter, who received his knighthood for having...