Word: abdel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...radical a shift in Egyptian politics came, and could come, only after a prolonged and bitter crisis (TIME, March 12 et seq). The previous Prime Minister, Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha?like King Fuad a British puppet?was forced to resign when he attempted to foist upon Egypt a British-dictated treaty of "alliance" which was actually one of "subjugation...
Prime Minister Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha attained the focus of interest when he recently submitted to party leaders the draft treaty which he negotiated in London, during King Fuad's visit there (TIME, July...
...shrewdness characteristic of Krim betokened the born statesman who had summoned his brother M'hammed ben AbdEl Krim, unquestionably a born general, to lead the forces which they collected about them by intrigue among the Riffian chiefs between...
Observers recalled that Abdel Krim, although a native of the Riff, is not only a trained lawyer who practiced for some years in Algiers, but a keen student of international affairs to whose desk are brought the latest copies of the principal journals of the world. Despite the quaint phrasing of his letter, Krim understands the ways of the fox quite as well as do his enemies...
...Abdel-Krim professed confidence, but the waiting must have worn on his patience. Perhaps he gnawed his fingernails. Everyone knew that the French and their Spanish allies would soon make a concerted drive, yet seven days passed with out its developing...