Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tewfik Pasha Abul Huda hurriedly summoned a special meeting of Jordan's Parliament in Amman last week and swore all the members to secrecy. Then, as his eyes moistened behind his large, horn-rimmed glasses, the Prime Minister of Jordan told the assembled deputies and senators a sad story...
Abul Huda Pasha paused, went on. King Talal had finally yielded to Abul Huda's pleading and agreed to go back to Switzerland for more treatment, with his family and a small entourage. Instead, he went to Paris, where he saw the sights and refused medical treatment. He threatened the royal physician with a stick. He even turned on his son, Crown Prince Hussein, and chased him out of the room. He beat Queen Zaine, who fled to Switzerland. He struck the wife of Jordan's Minister to France. He was drinking and throwing away money on women...
...last batch of statistics was not surprising: life expectancy for the Egyptian villager at birth is 15 to 20 years. Half the children die before five. An Egyptian reduced the foundation's discoveries to one doleful sentence. "In Egypt," said ex-Minister of Social Affairs Ahmed Hussein Pasha, "the elements of decent life do not exist for the mass of the people, and this is the true measure of our social development...
...evacuate the Suez Canal Zone if Egypt would join a Middle East Command. But they refused to turn over to the Egyptians the Sudan, which Egypt now claims. Quite the opposite: fortnight ago Britain announced plans to hasten self-rule for the Sudanese. It was a blow to Hilaly Pasha: only the urging of King Farouk and U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery kept Hilaly from breaking off the talks then & there...
Last week Hilaly Pasha dejectedly stopped the clock: he postponed the May 18 elections. Muffled by censorship and martial law, the Wafd opposition called his action unconstitutional...