Word: saad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Styled a "Treaty of Alliance," the new pact contains important British concessions. The trouble is, from an Egyptian point of view, that Prime Minister Sarwat does not represent the majority party of Egypt, the indomitable Wafd, once headed by the late famed Saad Zaghlul Pasha. Whenever the Wafd votes down a cabinet and seeks, as the majority party, to assume power, one or more British warships are usually in evidence to menace Egyptian harbors...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Saad Zaghlul Pasha,* 66, onetime Prime Minister of Egypt, leader of the Nationalistic Party, most potent figure of contemporary Egypt. Funeral. Under a blistering Af- rican sun, the Zaghlul funeral procession wended its way through the streets of Cairo to the Imam-Yhafel Mosque. At its head marched mournful bands, laborites with lazily wagging flags and banners. Next came political groups, army units, the coffin covered with a silk Egyptian flag on a gun carriage. Some 4,000 official mourners, a body of Freemasons and mounted police constituted the rear...
...Died. Saad Zaghlul Pasha Pasha, 66, most potent figure of contemporary Egypt...
...affairs. Meanwhile the retiring U. S. Minister to Egypt, Dr. Joseph Morton Howell, spoke at a luncheon tendered him by Egyptian friends at Cairo last week: "The Egyptian Chamber of Deputies is a wonderfully good and competent group of men. . . . I have not seen any Egyptian hostility to foreigners. . . . Saad Zaghlul Pasha† has proved on all occasions a great patriot, sincere and intelligent and possessed of abilities and will power to a high degree, making him a great statesman...
...bold acts as to order on his own responsibility while Governor of Bombay the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi, potent agitator. To Lord Lloyd's Cairo tea party there came an old and broken statesman who knew the British Baron's mettle. The 66-year-old statesman was Saad Zaghlul Pasha, leader of the Egyptian Wafd, a party which had just been returned to Parliament with a two to one majority. (TIME, June...