Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three astute, calculating men were ready with a forum and a plan for Pan-Arabia. They were: Egypt's Premier, cagey, ambitious Mustafa El Nahas Pasha; Syria's President, handsome, able Shukri Kuwatly; Iraq's ex-Premier, shrewd, far-seeing General Nuri Pasha Es-Said. Nahas Pasha had finally fixed the much-postponed Pan-Arab talks to open in Alexandria's garden-girdled Antoniades Palace after Ramadan (which ends Sept. 17); Kuwatly and Nuri Pasha had produced a joint plan to turn the mirage of Pan-Arabia into a reality...
Plans. Nahas Pasha reportedly had his own pet plan-a large, loose coalition embracing, under Egypt's leadership, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Syria, the Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, the Yemen...
Bearded, greying, Sir Sayed Abdel Rahman el Mahdi Pasha grieved to see his subjects forego the joys of marriage because the price of wives had soared. The most diligent young Sudanese could not hope to save the $400 a buxom maiden's parents asked; $100 brides were never of much account...
Egypt's ambitious Anglophile Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha, an active champion of an Arab federation, reprimanded Algiers. To captive President Khoury, Egypt's King Farouk sent a message: "We are sure the Lebanese will secure their independence. [They] can depend on our friendship in this critical hour." Syrian, Egyptian and Iraqi Arabs stirred angrily...
...Ramadan arriving in the indolent Middle East gave further excuse for the slow life: no serious work shall be under taken; even officials may go late to work; schools will close at 2 p.m. Those officials who do not observe Ramadan, in Premier Mustapha El Nahas Pasha's words, "shall be dealt with." The Premier made an example: he called off his important Pan-Arab talks (TIME...