Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Polo Sticks. Faced with British firmness, and unprepared for it, Egyptians reacted with disillusionment and consternation. Nahas Pasha's cabinet was in trouble. Having promised to get the British out of Egypt, if necessary by force, he could not perform his promise. Egypt's under-equipped 80,000-man army, which the Israelis whipped decisively, was no match for Erskine's veterans. The government faced the disappointed wrath of the very crowds it had incited...
...impression has got about the world," said Winston Churchill recently, "that we have only to be threatened to clear out of any place." One man who is clearly under this impression is Egypt's El Nahas Pasha. In a go-minute speech before Egypt's noisy Parliament last week, he demanded: 1) evacuation of all British forces (some 35,000 troops, and fighter planes) from the strategic Suez Canal zone; 2) a constitutional amendment incorporating the Sudan into a new Nile kingdom of "Egypt and Sudan" (the Sudanese had not been consulted, but Nahas Pasha promised them...
Diverting Attention. In the streets of Cairo, excited students (thoughtfully given a holiday for the occasion) celebrated Nahas Pasha's new policy by smashing windows and ransacking foreign stores...
Hero of the hour was plump and platitudinous Mohammed Salah el Din, 49, Foreign Minister in Nahas Pasha's Wafd cabinet. Smiling Salah el Din is a dedicated nationalist with an extraordinarily sensitive skin (he breaks out in spots when exposed to Egypt's hot sunshine, never ventures outside without a protecting umbrella and gloves). His single-minded policy since his appointment last year: use every means-if necessary, threaten appeals to Russia-to get rid of those British and grab the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. To him, the Suez is dust in the enemy's eye; since...
...first, ailing Nahas Pasha-who probably would like to see the British stay in Suez as a defensive screen against the hated Israelis-resisted his Foreign Minister's plans. But, being under attack for his government's corrupt mismanagement of Egyptian finances, he was content-as Egyptian politicians always have been-to divert attention from his own sins by denouncing Britain...