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When Peake Pasha resigned command of the Arab Legion in 1939, Glubb took the whole force over. By World War II's outbreak, with the assistance of four English officers, he had formed the most potent Arab fighting force of the 20th Century. With some armored cars and Chevrolets carrying machine guns, Major Glubb organized his 5,000 Arabs into a desert blitzkrieg unit...
They know him, first, as a great soldier who fought in the Balkan and First World Wars, then helped Kamâl Atatürk to drive the Greeks out of Turkey in 1922. At the village of Inönü, near Eskisehir, Ismet Pasha broke the Greeks' resistance. When Kamâl Atatürk ordered all Turks to take family names he asked his great friend to call himself Inönü. Ismet means Chastity...
Died. Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha, 58, Egypt's Minister of Defense, and premier at the start of World War II; of long illness which caused him to retire 14 months ago from the premiership; in Cairo...
Prime Minister Hussein Sirry Pasha of Egypt went out last week, escorted by Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore and Lieut. General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson to see how cleanly, how terribly the British & Imperial Army of the Nile, plus the R. N. and the R. A. F., had swept his country's desert fringe clear of Italians. But a man who awaited Graziani's further defeat with even keener relish was Seyyid Idris el Senussi, swart chieftain of the Libyan desert tribes whom Graziani "pacified" in 1930, executing their leaders, reputedly dropping their bodies into their...
Meanwhile, new Premier Hussein Sirry Pasha was getting his political bearings with difficulty. To the Chamber of Deputies in Cairo last week Premier Sirry made a speech outlining his foreign policy in clouds of verbal obscurity. His keynote seemed to be that Egypt "does not intend yet" to go to war. Hussein Sirry Pasha left no doubt that Egypt is now giving Britain all aid and cooperation short of declaring war on the Axis, whose planes again bombed Alexandria, operating base of the British Mediterranean Fleet. Since Egypt has been for years a more or less willing British puppet...