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Cylindrical red fezzes on their heads, Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha of Egypt and nine other Egyptian delegates marched down the aisle of the League of Nations' new Geneva palace last week to bow stiffly before Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras, temporary President of the League Assembly. The occasion was the formal admission of Egypt as the 61st nation to become a full-fledged member of the League. Most graceful of the 20 speeches of welcome came from Britain's dandified Anthony Eden...
With a satisfied glint behind his thick- lensed spectacles, stoop-shouldered Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras left Geneva last week where he had been representing his country at the League Council's 96th session (TIME, Feb. 1). That suave diplomat, onetime obstetrician, had now delivered for Turkey a League settlement of the Turkish-French dispute over the sanjak (district) of Alexandretta which Dictator Mustafa Kamal Ataturk had demanded that France hand to him from her Syrian mandate (TIME...
Died. Ahmed Tewfik Pasha, 91, Turkish statesman, last (1919-22) Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Sultanate; in Istanbul...
...Montreux, only a few miles up the Lake of Geneva from the sparkling new League of Nations buildings, the Conference opened last week with extreme Swiss police precautions against assassination of Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, onetime traveling salesman, and Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras. onetime male midwife. From London came the 7th Earl Stanhope, product of Eton, Oxford and the Grenadier Guards. He was sent to capitulate to Turkey at Montreux because British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, has the job of capitulating to Italy down the lake in Geneva this week...
...first Parliament since November 1934 met on the Moslem Sunday (Friday) for the first time in history. After brief eulogies to the King, Premier Aly Maher Pasha opened the envelope. Everybody knew the three names it contained: Fuad's son-in-law Mahmond Fakry Pasha; onetime Premier Tewfik Nessim Pasha; and the late Premier Adly Yeghen Pasha, all good safe Fuad stooges...