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...weeks, Egypt's new regime has sent Farouk I into exile, legally abolished aristocracy; declared war on corruption, promised land reform to break up the great estates, raised the rich man's taxes (on caviar, sport cars, wine, other luxuries), lowered the poor man's prices for sugar and cotton cloth, abolished censorship, relaxed restrictions on foreign investments. It was a revolution of the middle class, engineered by soldiers but. broadened by the support of businessmen, professional men, office workers and students who believed they had found a leader...
...swindlers had piled up a fortune of $500,000 by selling the army dud ammunition which exploded prematurely, killing dozens of front-line soldiers. Calling themselves the "Free Officers," a group of young Palestine veterans joined in a national protest presented to the King by the opposition parties. But Farouk took no notice. "[His] ears were as of stone," says Naguib, "his eyes as of ice. He scorned these warnings and called their authors children...
Naguib's intention was to purge the army and the government of corruption and take Farouk down a peg. But the more extreme members of the officers' committee urged him to get rid of the King altogether. They were backed up by the Moslem Brotherhood, a fanatic, powerful secret society, 500,000 strong...
...Abbasiya Barracks, his GHQ. He is up with the buglers (6 a.m.) in time to say his morning prayers and read a chapter from the Koran before sitting down to breakfast (yoghurt, one tomato, brown bread) and the morning papers. By 8 he is in his office-where King Farouk's picture has been ostentatiously turned to the wall-drafting DROs (Daily Routine Orders), interviewing local commanders, dictating replies to his morning mail (1,000 letters daily). Most of the letters he answers with a picture postcard of his troops or himself with the message: "Our movement succeeded because...
...benefits for the man in the street and in the fields, the mood may change. Naguib has ordered all parties to purge themselves. "We have had 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...