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...since the bloody riots last January, he had seen sabotage flicker over the country like heat lightning. Eleven post offices, seven bridges, 15 trains, 646 telephone poles had been blown up. Every time De Haute-cloque tried for a man-to-man interview with Sidi Mohammed el-Amin, the Bey of Tunis, whom Tunisians regard as their ruler, he found the 70-year-old Bey flanked by nationalist cabinet men. Finally, his patience worn thin, De Hautecloque ordered the Bey to throw the cabinet out. When the Bey appealed over the Resident's head to France's President...
...grey Cairo mansion of Fuad Serag el Din, Egypt's most dangerous politician, one night last week. It was late, after curfew, and the last pedestrian had scurried to shelter. A soldier smartly togged in green hurried over, took a quick look at the curfew pass of Imam Bey, Egypt's political police chief, and snapped a salute. Trusted policemen jumped out of the other cars. Imam Bey rang the bell of the darkened house; a servant told him that Serag el Din was across the street at the elaborate villa of Nahas Pasha, onetime fellah...
Across the street, light filtered through the shutters on the second-floor suite of Madame Nahas, a plump, attractive woman of 40, and great friend and business partner of huge, fleshy Serag el Din. Policeman Imam Bey rang the bell. Serag el Din finally appeared, opened the door. Imam Bey produced a written order: by government decree, Serag el Din was ordered into enforced confinement on the 780-acre estate of his wife (a member of Egypt's biggest landowning family), 36 miles out of Cairo...
...Cadillac bearing Serag el Din drew up to the family's country estate, now completely cordoned by police. The ex-minister and real boss of the Wafdists stood on his porch, lit a stogie, then shrugged his shoulders, walked inside and went to bed. The same morning, Imam Bey's men picked up Abdel Fattah Hassan, Serag el Din's crony, and plumped him down also on a Delta estate...
America's Town Meeting (Sun. 6:30 p.m., ABC). "Should the U.S. Support the British in Egypt?" Pro: Ex-Ambassador to Israel James G. McDonald. Con: Egypt's Kamel Selim Bey...