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Goodbye with Tanks. Within the Legion a group of anti-British nationalists formed, similar to the "Free Officers" clique that overthrew Egypt's King Farouk. They found allies against Glubb in Premier Rifai and in Queen Mother Zaine, who has been collecting a $280,000 annual subsidy from Saudi Arabia's King Saud to work against the British position. Last week, with nationalist sentiment running high, the officers forced the young King to choose between General Glubb and his own throne...
...London, the confusion seemed as impenetrable as in Hollywood. Said one expert on the peerage: "If you recognize the validity of the Austrian title, I shouldn't see why it would matter. Is Farouk Mr. Farouk because he lost his kingdom?" But a spokesman for Burke's ruled sternly: "Until the title is formally restored, it cannot be recognized in Britain." In Hollywood, TV Producer Jack Elliott, who is putting together the Baron Nugent-Vicki Benet series, took a meat-and-potatoes view of the case: "The show has been put off until this thing gets cleared...
...strength to make an armistice in 1949, Moslem resentment smoldered, later flamed up. "Liberation guerrillas" attacked the British, by then withdrawn to the Suez Canal zone. Then they cut loose in Cairo, where they burned bars, restaurants, movie houses (all sinful in Moslem eyes) and hotels frequented by foreigners. Farouk's wobbly government began to cave in and a state of emergency was declared...
...time had come for the Free Officers to act. "The original plan," says Nasser, "was to kill Farouk and all his stooges in the palace. We had 15 groups of three officers each to do the killings. But we decided the plot was too complicated, and we called it off at the last moment. If we failed to kill the King, the country would be hurt. If we succeeded, what then? Chaos?" A few days later they learned that there was to be a cleanup of officers. "We knew that they had our names." A plan was decided upon...
...asked if we should call it off and I said, 'No, the wheel is turning and it cannot be stopped.' " The wheel made its full turn in the next three days. Gentle Mohammed Naguib, 51, a good front man, was made commander in chief of the army; Farouk abdicated, and his Premier resigned...