Word: pasha
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Evacuation of British troops now occupying the Nile Valley and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was demanded by Prime Minister Nokrashy Pasha of Egypt at Lake Success yesterday. It was the second time the African nation had made the appeal within a week, and British representative Sir Alexander Cadogan again replied with bitterness...
LAKE SUCCESS, August 11--Prime Minister Nokrashy Pasha of Egypt told the United Nations Security Council today that the situation in his country "might easily get out of hand" unless the Council puts an end to British "occupation" of the Nile Valley...
...great day arrived last week, the Mahdi's son, 63-year-old Sayed Sir Abdul Rahman el Mahdi Pasha, now the darling of the British because he opposes union of the Sudan with Egypt, was ready to reopen his father's tomb at Omdurman. In ruins since Lord Kitchener's army shattered it with artillery in the reoccupation of the Sudan in 1898, the tomb was rebuilt this year with British permission...
...case of a people without a homeland moving into a land without a people." Saudi Arabia's cool, ceremonious Prince Feisal al Saud is the only Arab head delegate who wears flowing native abaya and qutra. His Egyptian colleague, suave, man-of-the-world Mahmoud Hassan Pasha (whose country contests with Lebanon the intellectual leadership of the Arab world), often wears sports clothes to U.N. sessions. The head delegates and their staffs are not only a well-organized team (coached by a lank Egyptian, Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League), but a sort of alumni...
...Nuri Pasha knew that the British had insured oil-rich Iraq against Russian pressure as well as against bandits and djinns. If the Hashimites and their advisers who gathered in Amman last week decided on a customs and military union, it would be because the British thought the time had come for a stronger Hashimite state. But such things move slowly in the Arab world. Perhaps, as the Arabs say, union would be achieved bukra fil mishmish (tomorrow, when the apricots bloom)-a day which never comes...