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Britain's Parliament reopened last week to the din of Laborites quarreling among themselves. The wounds Labor had inflicted on itself at the party conference in Morecambe two weeks earlier were still suppurating. The Attleeites now ceased to hope that they could cure galloping Bevanitis without drastic surgery. At a meeting in Stalybridge, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell openly accused the Bevanite faction of playing ball with Communists. "I was told by some observers," he said, "that about one-sixth of the constituency party delegates [at Morecambe] appear to be Communists or Communist-inspired...
...like the simple life. She bought an elaborate beige villa in Cairo's exclusive Garden City. She bought land, jewels, fancy clothes. Wafd ministers who refused her demands for illegal import licenses were fired; others quit. She and her great & good friend, fat Fuad Serag el Din, the Wafd's secretary general, were frequently seen together in public, made profitable deals in private...
Recently Cairo's crusading newspaper Akhbar el Yom printed a transcript of tapped phone talks that showed how she operated. The time of the talks: a few days after the Naguib coup. Zeezee, then in Switzerland, called Serag el Din in Cairo and ordered him to maneuver a chosen candidate into the Regency Council which Naguib was setting up. "Hader" (At your service), said Serag el Din. Then she called her husband, repeated her instructions. "At your order," replied Nahas meekly. As an afterthought, she told him to send her some more Swiss francs because she had already spent...
...eyed politicians and former palace officials, jailed the lot in Cairo's army school. Among those arrested: nine ex-Cabinet ministers and two ex-Premiers (Ibrahim Abdul Hadi, 52, president of the rightwing Saadist Party, and Ahmed Naguib el Hilary, 60, Independent). The prize catch: Fuad Serag el Din, the hippopotamine secretary general of the graft-ridden Wafd Party. At 7:15 a.m., Cairo Radio broadcast a communique from General Naguib: "Citizens! The army movement was not directed solely against the ex-King [Farouk]. It was, still is, and will continue to be a sword unsheathed against corruption...
...enough of corruption!" he cried. But the Wafd, Egypt's largest and most graft-ridden party, which Naguib turned out together with Farouk, only laughed in his face and is scheming day and night to recapture power. Its big wheels, Mustafa Nahas (ex-Premier) and Serag el Din, used the magic word "purge" to get rid of their rivals, then started plotting to get rid of Naguib. Their plan is to smear Naguib as unpatriotic for failing to throw the British out of Suez and the Sudan. Naguib's counterplan: a stiff electoral reform law, excluding...