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...show trial for the new regime. The three-man court-composed of officers of the Revolutionary Command Council-had prepared carefully. For 50 days they had led a parade of eminent witnesses-ex-Premiers, senior civil servants, big-time politicians-through a tour of the hidden sewers of the Farouk regime, hoping thereby to discredit Farouk, Serag el Din and the Wafd all at once. To a large extent, they succeeded. Items of testimony...
...Nokrashy bravely outlawed the Brotherhood, they murdered Nokrashy as well. Two months later el Banna paid for his crimes: an auto load of gunmen shot him down in broad daylight on a Cairo street. The movement went underground.When it legally emerged again in 1951, its popular resistance to King Farouk and the British gained it many fellow travelers, among them a young colonel named Gamel Abdel Nasser and a general named Mohammed Naguib...
...Used. The very day Naguib's military junta ousted King Farouk and took over Egypt, Lieut. Colonel Nasser, chief of the Revolutionary Command Council, dispatched an urgent message to one of the most powerful men in Egypt: Hassan el Hodeiby, the Brotherhood's new Supreme Guide. Would the Brotherhood please support the new regime...
...forget his diplomacy where his wife is concerned. Last November, while he was at home on leave from his job as Turkish Ambassador to Egypt, Diplomat Tugay learned that Egypt's new revolutionary government had decided to confiscate the property of all blood relatives of the deposed King Farouk. Under normal circumstances, no foreign emissary would concern himself with such a purely domestic affair, but it happens that Tugay's wealthy wife Emine, whose holdings included a palace in Cairo, many acres of rich Egyptian land and a bankful of Egyptian pounds, is Farouk's cousin. Ambassador...
...Egypt, where brides are supposed to get dowries from their grooms, former Queen Narriman's mother charged that deposed King Farouk welched on his traditional Moslem obligation. Narriman's mother, suing as the ex-Queen's guardian, claimed that Farouk never anted up a piaster of the $28,700 he owed. Meanwhile, Farouk was having mouthpiece trouble: a Cairo court, with Narriman's divorce suit on its docket, refused to hear Farouk's Syrian lawyer, who finally dug up an Egyptian attorney who was willing to plead the porcine playboy's case...