Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cairo's volatile mixture of pride, intransigeance and irresponsibility might have touched off an explosion that would blast the free world asunder. Acting just in time, King Farouk brushed aside his irresponsible and dangerous Premier Nahas Pasha and took stern measures to restore a semblance of order. His action in no way solved the problem, but it did give the West, and Egypt, another chance...
Premier Nahas Pasha's vacillating government, alternately blowing hot & cold on its people's incendiary nationalism, declared a state of emergency and met behind closed doors, to discuss ways of quenching the fires they had nurtured. A mob of university students, joined by many of the police sent out to control them, marched into the capital to de mand revenge for the dead and an immediate declaration of war against Britain. "The cabinet will decide tomorrow,"' a government minister told them. "Today! Today!" cried...
...Walad! [It's a boy]," cried one of the palace physicians in triumph. King Farouk, who had sat sleepless all night in the next room, entered his wife's bedchamber with tears in his eyes, took his blond newborn son in his arms and kissed him. "Thanks, Pasha," the King told Obstetrician Ibrahim Magdi Bey, his words automatically bestowing a title on the lucky doctor. Then, reverently, he kissed his 18-year-old Queen Narriman on the brow and left the room...
...hand in the squabble before it was too late. To his personal royal cabinet he named two men whose foreign policy runs directly counter to the Wafdists'. Into office as chief of the royal cabinet (which has no explicit powers, but advises the King) went Dr. Hafez Ann Pasha, Ambassador to Great Britain from 1936 to 1938 (and admiring author of The English in Their Homes), lately head of the Bank Misr, one of the largest financial houses in the Arab world. In as royal adviser on foreign affairs went Old Oxonian Abdel Fattah Amr Pasha (TIME...
...never forgotten, never forgiven the British for training tank guns on his palace in 1942, to force him to make Nahas Pasha Premier. At the time (Rommel's forces were threatening Alexandria), Nahas, curiously enough, was Britain's friend, while the King's nominee for Prime Minister was pro-Axis...