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Facing them across the table will be Egypt's top team: Premier Mohammed Naguib, Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, and four men from the Free Officers' Committee. But the British have an idea that the most important man they face is a lean young field officer, just turned 35, who does not even hold cabinet rank...
...France (as did Lebanon) in 1946. Democracy hardly had a chance to get started there; land-grabbing rich and ambitious politicians quickly brought chaos to the promising land. Shishekly's first step in December was to jail all rival top politicians and install his right-hand man, Colonel Fawzi Selo, in all their places. Two months later he issued the first of a blizzardlike series of nearly 200 government decrees which turned Syria virtually inside...
...Attassi, former Syrian nationalist leader who was unanimously elected president by Parliament in Sept. 1950. This week, murmuring appropriate thanks to Attassi for his integrity, Shishekly issued "Communique No. 2," tossing Attassi out of the presidency, and dissolving parliament. Then he reached into his vest pocket for a Colonel Fawzi Silo, whom he installed as chief of state, Premier and defense minister, pending "restoration of normal parliamentary life...
Powder & Righteousness. India's Sir Benegal and Egypt's Fawzi Bey had still not heard from their governments. At 5:10 the meeting was adjourned to give them a chance to try again. A reporter walked to the horseshoe, picked up Tsiang's fascinating doodle and got a Chinese journalist to translate it. Tsiang had drawn what was on his mind. The characters read: "burning, powder, ten, black, white." Then he added another "powder" and finished off with the character for "righteousness...
...those who are in favor, please raise your right hand." When the hands went up they showed seven votes (Britain, China, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Norway, U.S.) for; Yugoslavia against; India and Egypt not voting. (Later, India voted for. The government of Egypt's fat, foolish King Farouk instructed Fawzi Bey to vote against...