Word: ziwar
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...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...
Egyptians streamed to the polls last week and proclaimed by their ballots exactly in what low esteem they hold the "Palace Cabinet" of Ahmed Ziwar Pasha. The potent Wafd, the party of Zaghlul, scored a smashing victory, secured 166 Deputies (out of 215) as opposed to 176 in the elections of 1924 and 101 in the elections of 1925. But the "Palace Party" (Unionist), which appeared for the first time at the polls last week, was so utterly repudiated as to obtain but five seats in the Chamber, two of them being disputed...
This recrudescence of Wafd supremacy among the electorate again threw into jagged relief the ugly fact that Premier Ziwar has continued since 1924 at the head of the Egyptian Cabinet almost solely because he is acceptable to Britain, the unseen but mighty tweaker of Egyptian puppet strings...
...immediate result of last week's elections was to precipitate fresh agitation for the resignation of Ziwar as Premier and the installation of a Wafd Ministry. The Wafd's "grand old man," Saad Zaghlul Pasha, 66 (TIME, May 24), has, however, suffered marked ill health for some time and, despite his personal popularity, has failed thus far to rally Egyptians against the British with sufficient solidarity to force his return?as Premier...
...offer was made in January. The terms of the gift were redrawn by Premier Ziwar and his distinguished colleagues and returned to Mr. Rockefeller (via his representative Professor James H. Breasted, famed Egyptologist) (TIME, May 3). Mr. Rockefeller acquiesced in Egypt's terms?which it then repudiated, evidently fearing something deep and scheming beneath such apparent magnanimity...