 In October 1944, when Lampson went away for a vacation in South Africa, Farouk finally dismissed Nahas as prime minister on 8 October 1944 and replaced him with Ahmed Maher, the brother of Ali Maher.The dismissal of Nahas was seen by Lampson as a personal defeat, who complained in his diary the British would never have a politician "in our pocket" like him again, and was seen as a decisive turning point when Farouk had finally outwitted Lampson.But at the same time, Lampson admitted that Nahas by his corruption had become a liability, and that Britain could not continue to support a corrupt government by threats of force in the long run, as the British people would not tolerate going to war with Egypt to keep someone like Nahas in office.