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...treated for an arm injury suffered while covering the fighting in Korea. Soon after Bell's departure, two major stories broke almost simultaneously: 1) the fall and return to power of Mohammed Mossadegh's government in Iran, and 2) the abdication of King Farouk in Egypt...
...Egypt last week, newsmen were getting their first chance to explore the luxurious vulgarities of ex-King Farouk's palaces (see box). They stared incredulously at the marble, the gold, the diamonds, the pearls, the barrels of whisky, the mountains of rare coins, the statues of nudes. Outside the view was in striking contrast. The newsmen looked out over one of the world's worst agricultural slums: the Nile delta. The peasants toiling there-like most Egyptians-live in mud huts, dress in rags and eat the bread of the poor (Egypt has two kinds of bread...
...such times, Naguib appears less like the strong man and more like the presiding officer of a strong-minded group. In a sense, that is what he is. On taking over leadership of the Free Officers coup against Farouk (TIME, Aug. 4), Naguib inherited a six-man operating group of majors and colonels, and added four of his own men. To this day, this committee makes all the big decisions jointly. Inside, there are sharply divergent viewpoints. So far, Naguib, who outranks the others in years, prestige, personality and brains, has managed to keep the hotbloods pulling together; on crucial...
...father, deposed King Farouk, summoned 100 waiting newsmen at Capri's sumptuous Eden Paradiso Hotel, pointedly cradled his seven-month-old son in his arms and read a statement: "I am no longer a rich man. It is untrue that I have taken a fortune from Egypt. My wife, my baby son and three young daughters'[by his first wife] will live very simply... The King of Egypt is here with me. I must be careful not to say anything that might make difficulties. He will have difficulties enough of his own, for it is not as easy...
Back in Egypt, Fuad's subjects debated what to do with Farouk's empty palaces. Two overcrowded universities wanted to occupy them as classrooms, but one Cairo newspaper argued: let the palaces become museums like Versailles, so that the people might see what lavish living went on near some of the world's slummiest slums. The new de facto ruler of Egypt, General Mohammed Naguib, and his hand-picked Premier, Aly Maher, decreed the abolition of the titles of bey and pasha (roughly equivalent to sir and lord). "Call me Hadretkom [mister]," urged an aging pasha...