Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lobby of Cairo's Ministry of Interior was wearing the uniform of a police first lieutenant, but he looked more like a student. A few minutes before 10 a.m. he glanced up. Across the lobby came Egypt's 60-year-old Premier, Mahmoud Fahmy El Nokrashy Pasha. As he approached the elevators, the young man saluted. Then he whipped out a revolver and fired five bullets into the Premier's body, killing...
...Phone Call. The assassin, hustled off to jail, was a 21-year-old veterinary student named Abdel Meguid Ahmed Hassan. He was also a member of the Moslem Brotherhood, a fanatical religious-political organization, a million strong, of whom half are Egyptians. Nokrashy Pasha had won its sworn enmity. A few weeks ago a telephone call brought him news that the brotherhood had assassinated Cairo's police chief. As he put down the phone, Nokrashy paled and clutched at his heart. Promptly he banned the brotherhood, knowing that his action might bring about his own assassination...
...clock that night Egypt had a new Premier: tall, stocky Abdel Hadi Pasha, former cabinet chief to King Farouk and onetime Foreign Minister. Like his old friend Nokrashy, he is a strong nationalist and leader of the Saadist Party, is expected to push the war in Palestine and continue the clean-up of the Moslem Brotherhood...
...line of march ended at Abbasiya, a suburb of Cairo, where Nokrashy was laid to rest in a mausoleum side by side with his old friend, Ahmed Maher Pasha, who as Egypt's Premier in 1945 had also gone down under an assassin's bullet...
Died. Mahmoud Fahmy El Nokrashy Pasha, 60, Premier of Egypt; by an assassin's bullet; in Cairo (see FOREIGN NEWS...