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...sleepy-eyed politicians and former palace officials, jailed the lot in Cairo's army school. Among those arrested: nine ex-Cabinet ministers and two ex-Premiers (Ibrahim Abdul Hadi, 52, president of the rightwing Saadist Party, and Ahmed Naguib el Hilary, 60, Independent). The prize catch: Fuad Serag el Din, the hippopotamine secretary general of the graft-ridden Wafd Party. At 7:15 a.m., Cairo Radio broadcast a communique from General Naguib: "Citizens! The army movement was not directed solely against the ex-King [Farouk]. It was, still is, and will continue to be a sword unsheathed against corruption...
...Warn." Naguib told the political parties: "Purge yourselves," and in three days the corrupt Wafd expelled 14 small fry, including three former ministers, hoping Naguib wouldn't notice that the two big boys, Mustafa el Nahas and Fuad Serag el Din were still running things. But Naguib did notice, snapped: "I am not satisfied." This week he added: "We have advised. Now we warn. Next we shall act. We have had enough of corruption...
...Majesty. King Fuad II of Egypt and the Sudan, sucked his thumb and wiggled contentedly...
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...
...happy outpouring since another day 16 years ago. That day there were also Royal Air Force planes overhead and a 21-gun salute. Tall, handsome, slender King Farouk had come home from school in England (the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich), to replace his recently dead father, plump Fuad I. Wrote the New York Times correspondent: "Farouk has won the hearts of his people by his democratic manner." Last week, the independent newspaper El Akhbar of Cairo updated the story: "Today, history records the name of an oppressive and unjust King ... A King who used the influence of the monarch...