Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Egypt's attitude toward the war had become crucial. Egypt's Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha had pledged himself to the fantastic task of keeping Egypt neutral and yet supporting Britain's war effort. Last week, as the pressures of war made Egyptian "neutrality" more & more precarious, he supported Britain by jailing perhaps the best Egyptian friend of the Axis, onetime Premier Aly Maher Pasha, "for reasons relating to the safety and security of the State...
Prime Minister Nahas Pasha, leader of the nationalist Wafd Party, last week backed up pledges made to the Egyptian people and officially announced, in a letter to British Ambassador Sir Miles Lampson, that as a sovereign nation Egypt would allow no "British interference in . . . internal affairs." He worked on plans for redistribution of available foodstocks, urged increased agricultural production with an eye toward self-sufficiency, prepared to crack down on hoarders and profiteers, as well as "intrigue and attempts to create disturbances...
...British Government in London watched anxiously. But the British breathed easier when Prime Minister Nahas Pasha appointed Sir Amin Osman Pasha as a liaison officer between the British and Egyptian Governments. Sir Amin had worked smoothly with the British in carrying compromise proposals to Haj Amin El-Husseini, fugitive Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, in the midst of the Arab-Jewish agitation over Palestine in 1939. The British were confident Sir Amin would bring reassurances such as TIME has received* that Egypt's young King Farouk was firmly pro-Ally...
...Nahas Pasha thus to return was gall to Farouk. But there is a proverb in the Near East which says: "A dog does not bite another dog from the same neighborhood." Farouk has shouted "Egypt for the Egyptians" as loudly as any of Nahas Pasha's fellahin. And while the fellahin have been influenced by Axis propaganda describing pro-British Egyptians as "Pasha Pigface" and "Pasha Fathead," Farouk has heeded Italian advisers and Axis promises of a "new order" of freedom...
King Farouk couldn't shoot the British lion, but if Nahas Pasha helped, he could twist its tail...