Word: yeghen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...countrymen were echoing her words with action. The intense Nationalistic Wafd party ("Egypt for the Egyptians"), violently opposed to the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, forced the resignation of Prime Minister Mohamed Mahmud Pasha, puppet dictator, chief Egyptian negotiator of the Treaty. Plump, passive King Fuad invited neutral Adly Pasha Yeghen, twice Prime Minister, to form a "temporary" cabinet, permitted him to restore the parliamentary regime. The new leader immediately announced that in the coming universal-suffrage elections the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty question would be put directly to the people...
Zaghlul spoke for 90 minutes. He might have conveyed his meaning in a sentence. The Wafd, he declared, must go outside its ranks to find a premier acceptable to Baron Lloyd. He, Zaghlul, proposed that they support former Premier Adli Pasha Yeghen, leader of the Liberal party, whom Lord Lloyd had consented to tolerate as Premier. The Cabinet of Ziwar Pasha thereupon resigned, and the Sultan summoned Adli Pasha to form a new government...
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