Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the jampacked Chamber of Deputies in Cairo's Parliament building rose Egypt's Premier Dr. Ahmed Maher Pasha. Five years ago he had urged Egypt to declare war on the Axis. Now he read the royal declaration of war he had drafted (at the behest of the Big Three-see INTERNATIONAL) with King Farouk. Then the portly, fun-loving Premier stepped briskly to the waiting Senate to read...
...pillared Pharaonic Hall a group of young men saluted respectfully. The Premier paused to shake hands. Suddenly a youth in a black shirt and red tie whipped out a pistol, fired point blank at Maher Pasha. The Premier dropped. Tears ran down his cheeks. Said he: "I'm finished." Thus death, as it must to all men, came last week to Ahmed Maher Pasha...
...What was I to do?" asked the Premier. "The underlying idea of the meeting was to enable me to speak to the people, to the representatives of all classes and all political parties-because I do not belong to any party. But in Scala Hall there were representatives of only one party, who had got there through force and with the definite purpose of preventing others from coming...
...Premier found another hall for his speech. But all Bucharest printers were ordered by their trade union not to print it. Premier Radescu ordered the Government censor "to censor nothing whatever in . . . the papers enjoying the trade union's support, even if they were to print insults addressed to me." He added: "I do not care to stay in the position I am now holding if the country does not wish it." This seemed to suit the N.D.F.'s apparent purpose: to force out Radescu, force in a leftist Government...
...Middle East the occasion was momentous. Egypt's King Farouk was host. The delegates were Foreign Ministers or their equivalent. Trans-Jordan's Premier Samir el Refai Pasha underlined the Arabic character of the meeting. Though he wears European clothes in his native desert, he wore stunning Arab robes in Cairo. Most important, Saudi Arabia, keystone of any Pan-Arab federation and outstanding absentee at last autumn's Alexandria conference of Arab nations (TIME, Oct. 16), would attend the meeting in the person of Al Sheikh Yussef Yassin, personal secretary of King Ibn Saud. Yemen, the little...