Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier, 68-year-old Aly Maher Pasha, worked 18 hours a day restoring order. Simultaneously, he worked to ease the lot of the destitute whose unrest threatens Egypt. He cut kerosene and sugar prices, started investigations into rice and textile profiteering, ordered his ministers to give up their fancy limousines and limit themselves to one Ford apiece...
Sunday morning was like London after a blitz night, with cars overturned, burned buildings still smoldering, and a strange quiet. The cabinet met for three hours; the air was filled with the expectancy of a dramatic move: breaking off relations with Britain. But Nahas Pasha's ministers didn't get the chance...
...that of the British by the hog-wild nationalist uprising, abruptly fired the lot of them, with ironic thanks "for what you have done" and a reproof for failing to keep "security and order." To form the new government, he appointed an old friend and adviser: Aly Maher Pasha, 68, one of the richest men in Egypt, who has served twice be fore as Premier. As Chief of the Royal Cabinet when young Farouk first came to the throne as a boy of 16, Maher Pasha had formed and guided all the young monarch's early opinions...
William Thomson, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic, called the present state of affairs "an impossible situation," with the outcome completely uncertain. He said that an Egyptian student here on a Fulbright Scholarship had told him that the new premier, Aly Maher Pasha, represented the aristocratic segment of the populace. The student added that Maher Pasha understood the British better than his predecessor, Mustapha Nahas Pasha of the popular Waflist party, and could deal with the foreigners more capably...
...History, stated that at present there was "a temporary lull which may or may not produce later fireworks." The ouster of the Wafdist group and subsequent appointment of the new independent cabinet was necessitated by the emergency conditions, according to Owen. He was unsure whether or not Maher Pasha's government would meet with any success. "It must first," he said, "get a working agreement during the present breathing spell...