Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Egypt's Premier, Nahas Pasha, has one good eye and one that veers off at a tangent. Perhaps the second eye has been roving over the restless Middle East; perhaps it winked at the Fighting French Commander-in-Chief for Syria and Lebanon, General Georges Catroux, and certain political leaders of these onetime French mandates. In Cairo last week they were closeted with Nahas, hatching plans that, after World War II, the Middle East shall be un-mandated...
...there are cogent reasons for the Egyptians and British to stick together. The easygoing Egyptians have only to look at what has happened to other conquered countries to learn what will happen to their foodstuffs, money and personal liberties if the Nazis succeed. Prime Minister Mustafa El Nahas Pasha's pro-British Government is more stable, has wider popular support than the Government a year ago. The anti-British ex-Prime Minister Aly Maher Pasha has been jailed. Within recent weeks 200 other possible quislings have been arrested, a padlock put on the Cairo Royal Automobile Club, which since...
...haired, twinkling, courteous Aly Maher Pasha was Premier of Egypt when World War II began. Behind him was a vigorous record as a lawyer, administrator and nationalist politico. Aly Maher Pasha had also found time to indulge a passion for swimming and handsome daughters of Egypt. But when Italy entered the war, Britain found him unsympathetic to the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty calling for Egyptian cooperation with the British Army, and King Farouk accepted Aly Maher Pasha's resignation...
When General Sir Archibald P. Wavell captured Bardia, Italian officers were found to have translations of the British plans for Egypt's defense. Among the few possessors of those plans had been Aly Maher Pasha. Last February Egyptian students celebrated the British retreats in Libya shouting "Long Live Rommel!" and "Long Live Aly Maher Pasha...
When Mustafa El Nahas Pasha became Premier in February, he asked Aly Maher Pasha to keep to his estate, "The Green Castle," near Alexandria. Aly Maher Pasha soon turned up in the Parliament lobbies in Cairo. Inside Parliament he was immune from arrest, but when he left the building one day last week the police nabbed...