Word: salah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lunch. In Egypt proper, King Farouk began showing some of the good sense he has been credited with. Back from his spectacular honeymoon, he summoned his ministers to lunch, let them know he wasn't pleased with events. He told Premier Nahas Pasha that if Foreign Minister Salah el Din started making loud speeches at the Paris U.N. meeting, he would recall him. He sarcastically asked his Waidist cabinet members just how they reconciled their party's anti-Communist position with their Foreign Minister's "making Communist propaganda." Moreover, said Farouk, he didn't like this...
...arms?" Egypt's bloodthirsty Moslem Brotherhood vowed to "knock at the doors of heaven with the heads of the British." At Port Said, the northern entrance to the Suez Canal, student gangs looted stores, over turned a British ambulance, careened through a British army camp hurling "Salah-el-Din cocktails" (homemade fire bombs named for the Foreign Minister). Eleven British army vehicles were burned...
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...
...then drove out to Amman airport in Abdullah's limousine. At a lonely stretch of the road a strange car ripped past, Tommy-gun fire burst from its windows. El Solh was shot through jaw and heart, instantly killed. The assassins: Mihkail el Dib, a Lebanese, and Mohammed Salah, a Palestinian Arab, both members of the Syrian National Party. One of the men was killed by police; the other reportedly took his own life...