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...greatest crime of the landowners," Frye said. "Is that although they made their wealth in Egypt, this money wasn't used to build up the country...
...recent Rockefeller Foundation study reports that the living standard of the Egyptian peasants or fellaheen is below that of peasants in India and China. Naguib has the overwhelming support of these peasants as well as of the army, Frye stated...
...false to think of land reform as a panacea for Egypt," Frye said. Although it will relieve some of the feudal disparity between classes, "only a small percentage of the fellaheen will get land." An ominous note: "The cotton crop will fall to places...
...Frye said that the landowners are trying to persuade Naguib that this law will ruin Egypt's economy. "He depends on army backing to see this measure through." If the landowners can't dissuade Naguib, they may try to "regain control of the army through bribery," or even kill...
...Frye called the issues of the Suez Canal and the Sudan a political blind and the British a traditional scapegoat" by which attention is diverted from domestic difficulties...