EGYPT’S WORST HATED MAN.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 February 1926, Page 8

EGYPT’S WORST HATED MAN.

•EVIL GENIUS” FALLS PROM POWER. A KING’S ADVISER. Nachaat Pasha, the acting chief oJ King Fund’s private Cabinet and hitconfidential adviser, lias vacated his position This step, it is stated, is in consequence of the High Commissioner. Lord Lloyd’s, visit to King Fuad. A royal decree announces .Nachaat Pasha’s appointment as a Alinistei Plenipotentiary abroad, though it does not state where. The decree displacing him was onl\ signed after Lord Lloyd for two successive days visited Ivin 2 Fuad. Nothing of their conversations is known, but they are declared to have been largely concerned with Nachant’s position. The present chaotic situation in lOgvpt centred round Hussain Naeliaat Pasha for some time, and he has come to he called one personality —the “evil genius” of Egypt, whose black shadow looms heavily over the- spindly minarets. Hassau Nachaat Pasha has never, to the masses, materialised into a, man. He remains power, like radium or electricity, operating from the mysterious recesses of the royal palace Few would recognise his swarthy face, t hough thousands tremble at his" name. Tall, handsome beyond the measure of most men. of a subtle fascination and appeal, the gamut of emotions play round his mobile mouth. l ie was King Fuad’s confidential adviser and bosom friend, and was the real and only ruler of the country. Nachaat Pasha has been the virtual King of Egypt. Rich, feared, almost friendless, he is decried as another Rasputin, and as the bad tinge I of the king, but Nachaat Paslui disdains to lift the veil which could reveal a deep nobility. Nachaat is the worst-hated man in bringing together King Fuad and Zaghltil when ZagJilul returned from exile. u Naeliaat is the wohst-hated man in Egypt.