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...French began to suspect that Ben Youssef was getting out of hand. During the Casablanca conference, the Sultan had a meal alone with Franklin D. Roosevelt, who (the French suspect) filled him full of anticolonialism. He later ignored his aged advisers and heeded his son Moulay Hassan, who was mixed up in the Istiqlal (Nationalist) independence movement...
...Sadek paid a call on Chief Hassan el Hodeibi, head of the powerful right-wing Moslem Brotherhood. They fell to wrangling about Communism. Finally, Captain Sadek blurted out: "Oh, come now, sir. There is one thing you must realize. Our movement is Communist. We are all Communists...
...family's country estate, now completely cordoned by police. The ex-minister and real boss of the Wafdists stood on his porch, lit a stogie, then shrugged his shoulders, walked inside and went to bed. The same morning, Imam Bey's men picked up Abdel Fattah Hassan, Serag el Din's crony, and plumped him down also on a Delta estate...
...costs an average day's wages-twice the price of a month ago. Chelow-kabab, the famed national dish of rice and meat, which cost 15 rials 60 days ago, is now 30. Poor Iranians grumbled: "Chelow-kabab is a royal dish now. Too rich to swallow." Bricklayer Hassan Rezaie expressed a growing bewilderment: "They tell me that oil has been nationalized. But the good life has not yet come." It was a dangerous game the British and Mossadegh were playing, while the U.S. aimlessly kibitzed, carrying on a listlessly polite conversation but putting forward no proposals...
...with the mosque still only half finished, the National Production Authority clamped controls on materials for religious structures. Washington's mosque was short 40.5 tons of steel for the roof and a 150-ft. minaret. NPA refused to allocate more steel for 1951's last quarter. So Hassan Hosny, Egyptian embassy third secretary and secretary general of the Mosque Foundation, appealed to the State Department...