Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Egypt's Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha and Iraq's Premier Nuri Pasha Es-Said are two of Britain's best friends in the Arab world. Nahas and Nuri poked cautiously last fortnight at the most vexing question in the Middle East: Pan-Arabism. The two pashas said they were looking for ways to "increase our cultural, economic and political cooperation." Their talks looked toward more talks with other Arab pacemakers, perhaps eventually an Arab congress...
Said Nuri Pasha after canvassing Arab leaders and rulers of Trans-Jordan, Syria, the Lebanon and Palestine: "I found general agreement among the majority [on] reunion of these countries into a united Syria as it existed before the last great...
...Middle East for a drive toward southeastern Europe. Germany reported that Allied troops were massing in Syria. Italy reported at least one large convoy en route through the eastern Mediterranean to the Middle East. Berlin reported an order of the day by Iraq's Premier General Nuri Pasha es-Said to his troops saying that active service was approaching. Warned the Rome radio: "Large British forces are concentrating along the southern frontier of Turkey...
Churchill had already called on Egypt's King Farouk and Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha in Cairo. In Tripoli, on his way home, he clasped the victorious hand of General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery...
...palace sulked Farouk I, the boy king with the girl wife. No great friend of the English was Farouk. Despite years of English domination, Egypt was more Latin than Anglo-Saxon. In political control was the Wafd Party, under Prime Minister Mustafa El Nahas Pasha. The best that could be said of the Wafdists was that, with the Axis armies at the gates, they were neutral, their hands upraised. The Egyptian Army, little more than a police force, could not be expected to resist. Egypt, old and lush, indolent and naked, waited-ready to be taken...