Word: sirdar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week French customs agents noticed white powder seeping from packing cases addressed to Sirdar Al Ghulam Nabi Khan, Afghan Minister in Paris, just appointed Ambassador to Moscow. Four cases were seized, found to contain $33,000 worth of heroin...
This document, virtually a petition, asked permission to place the Egyptian Army under an Egyptian Commander-in-Chief. Should this be done the office of Sirdar* would be taken from its present British incumbent, Major General Charlton Watson Spinks, or "Spinks Pasha" as Egyptians know him. That such a thing should even be thought of shocked the British Government so deeply that it despatched the battleships and sent a note declaring that the whole affair must be a "misunderstanding." Why should the independent Kingdom of Egypt want an Egyptian Commander-in-Chief, when Spinks Pasha is fulfilling that office, with...
...compelled to resign as Premier (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924) when the British exacted within 24 hours a fine of $2,300,000 gold from the Egyptian Government because seven Egyptian students, later hanged, collectively shot and murdered Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack, British predecessor of Spinks Pasha as Sirdar. A year and a half later (TIME, June 7, 1926) the followers of Zaghlul swept to an overwhelming victory in the Egyptian parliamentary election but were prevented by British pressure from making Zaghlul Premier again...
...Cairo seven men were led onto a platform. One by one a trap door opened beneath their feet, and they went dangling into eternity. They were the men convicted of the murder of the British sirdar, Sir Lee Stack (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924). Six of the men, all youths, went bravely to their doom. The seventh an older man, able lawyer, brains of the conspiracy, struggled and wept. An eighth man, convicted, had his sentence commuted at the last minute because he had confessed promptly after his capture and had facilitated the capture of the others...
Following the recent crisis, caused by the assassination of the Sirdar, Sir Lee Stack (TIME, Dec. 1 et seq.), Parliament was prorogued for a month. It was hoped that during this period the King's Premier, Ziwar Pasha, appointed to effect a settlement with Britain, would be able to gather about him supporters enough to make his Cabinet secure in Parliament. The attitude of Parliament, however, did not change; ex-Premier Saad Zaghlul Pasha continued to enjoy the confidence of both Chambers and that meant an anti-British policy which could only embroil Egypt further with Britain...