Word: sirdar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Spirit of Locarno." After the Allies had beaten Germany and imposed the Treaty of Versailles, the House of Chamberlain took up its chosen international mission under Elder Son Austen Chamberlain who became Foreign Secretary in 1924. Few days later the British Sirdar in Egypt, Sir Lee Stack, was assassinated and Mr. Chamberlain traded a settlement of that outrage for which Britain was paid $2,500,000 by Egypt. The influence of Son Austen as Lord Privy Seal and Leader in the House of Commons was decisive in achieving exactly what Father Joseph had advocated and died devoutly wishing: the Irish...
Finally the Treaty provides that some Egyptian troops and Egyptian colonists may enter the Sudan. In 1924 eight Egyptians assassinated the British Sirdar General Sir Lee Stack and in punishment Britain excluded Egyptian soldiers from the Sudan, closed it to Egyptian farmers who wished to move in, and exacted from the Egyptian Government cash damages of $2,500,000 (TIME...