Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha, 58, Egypt's Minister of Defense, and premier at the start of World War II; of long illness which caused him to retire 14 months ago from the premiership; in Cairo...
Prime Minister Hussein Sirry Pasha of Egypt went out last week, escorted by Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore and Lieut. General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson to see how cleanly, how terribly the British & Imperial Army of the Nile, plus the R. N. and the R. A. F., had swept his country's desert fringe clear of Italians. But a man who awaited Graziani's further defeat with even keener relish was Seyyid Idris el Senussi, swart chieftain of the Libyan desert tribes whom Graziani "pacified" in 1930, executing their leaders, reputedly dropping their bodies into their...
Robust young King Farouk was getting accustomed last week to disasters in his Government. Last time His Majesty opened Parliament he had just cocked an ear to Premier Hassan Sabry Pasha, who was reading the Speech from the Throne, when the Premier dropped dead (TIME, Nov. 25). Last week King Farouk commanded Minister of War Saleh Younes Pasha to attend his royal person during ceremonies inaugurating a new water system at Fayyúm. With a brisk step the Minister entered the King's train at Cairo. Just as it was about to pull out he collapsed. Jabbering with...
Meanwhile, new Premier Hussein Sirry Pasha was getting his political bearings with difficulty. To the Chamber of Deputies in Cairo last week Premier Sirry made a speech outlining his foreign policy in clouds of verbal obscurity. His keynote seemed to be that Egypt "does not intend yet" to go to war. Hussein Sirry Pasha left no doubt that Egypt is now giving Britain all aid and cooperation short of declaring war on the Axis, whose planes again bombed Alexandria, operating base of the British Mediterranean Fleet. Since Egypt has been for years a more or less willing British puppet...
Egypt's foremost surgeon, Minister of Health Ali Ibrahim Pasha, hurried forward, shooed away nervous, crowding no tables, examined the prostrate body. He whispered a word to the King, into whose eyes tears sprang. Hassan Sabry Pasha's speech was indeed the shortest a Premier had ever delivered. He was dead...