Word: tewfik
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League of Nations and therefore cannot squawk at Geneva. King Fuad is a fat, docile puppet. The farce that Egypt is an "independent kingdom" has been played so long that everyone has his lines pat (TIME, Dec. 10). But last week Egyptians boiled with demands that their lickspit Premier Tewfik Nessim Pasha should at least make the turning to Alexandria into Britain's main Mediterranean war base the occasion for wangling some heavy palm oil out of his and Egypt's master, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson. British High Commissioner to the Inde pendent Kingdom of Egypt...
...Geneva last week a thick-spectacled Turk, near-sighted Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushdi, presided over the Council of the League of Nations. Absent but up for scrutiny was Germany...
...BALKAN PACT (Feb. 9, 1934) signed at Athens by Foreign Ministers Maximos, Tewfik, Titulescu and Jeftitch of Greece, Turkey, Rumania and Yugoslavia pledges all signatories to defend the frontiers of each. Attached was a secret protocol, since divulged, extending the Pact to guarantee all Balkan frontiers against aggression by any Balkan State, and to punish any Balkan State which may join any State whatsoever which attacks a Balkan State. Unless they turn out to be scraps of paper, the Balkan Pact and protocols mean cast iron peace in Europe's inflammatory cockpit...
When His Majesty relaxed in mellow mood, with Dictator Kemal half seas over, opportunities to negotiate were nimbly seized by the Talleyrand of Turkey, her perpetual Foreign Minister, Dr. Tewfik Rushdi Bey, who began his career as an obstetrician. Knowing that there is no Persian with whom one can effectively negotiate except the King of Kings, ingratiating Dr. Rushdi sounded His Majesty on the great project of a Middle Eastern Alliance, a bloc to be constructed in spite of Britain and France by Moslems of Turkey, Persia, Irak, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Transjordania and Egypt. Such at least is Dr. Rushdi...
...Turks arrest Mr. Insull under Article IX of the Turkish penal code permitting the detention of foreigners accused in their countries of crimes not of a political or military nature. A cablegram was delivered from Greek Foreign Minister Maximos protesting the detention of the Maiotis. Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Bey and confrères considered: Should they oblige the U. S. or should they offend Greece? It was not a difficult question. None of them minded a bit giving a diplomatic kick to those dogs of Greece...