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...string of cars rolled into the driveway of the huge, brownish-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...
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...
...Serag el Din, who knows the rules of the dangerous game he plays, submitted gracefully. When Madame Nahas' brother began wailing, he snapped: "Oh, don't make a scandal...
...guest to another: "I was afraid the voters wouldn't know our delegates." "Hell," snorted his friend, "I didn't know a one of them myself." An old Kefauver admirer, who had come up from Tennessee for the fun, shook his head admiringly and drawled into the din: "Handshaking seems to work as well in New Hampshire as it does in Tennessee...
...comfortable majority in Egypt's Parliament. Farouk wanted first to clean up the mess of corruption in Egypt's politics, and then to come to sensible terms with the British over Suez. Maher preferred, instead, to string along with the potent Wafdists and their leader Serag el Din, a prime instigator of the nationalist riots, and with their help do what he could with the British...