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Still awaiting trial are at least 32 more Egyptians, including the once powerful Premier Mustafa el Nahas, and Hafez Afifi, onetime chief of Farouk's royal cabinet. The military rulers had apparently decided that if they are to give Egypt the stability that Kemal Ataturk gave Turkey (see p. 58), they must deal as sternly as he did with the opposition...
...Allies. With the help of two brothers (now dead), and supply sources throughout the Middle East, Athanassiades amassed a fortune of $50 million in gold in four years. At war's end, Bodo, then 25, was "the richest Greek in the world." But, four years later, when Kemal Ataturk threw the Greeks out of Turkey, he was wiped out again. He moved to Athens, got into the tile business, and went bust once more. Says he: "I had to start again from the letter alpha...
...general read it during a break in an all-night meeting with his Army Committee, scribbled in his comments and returned it to Richardson. One line in the story seemed to have found Naguib's Achilles' heel. Comparing him with Turkey's Kemal Ataturk, the story read: "Naguib, a simpler man, lacks Ataturk's grasp of politics, his vision, his rousing oratory; he may also lack his iron will to rule." Naguib had crossed out these words and had scribbled in the margin: "How did you know all this? It is not true...
Egypt's Strongman Mohammed Naguib seemed likely last week to follow the example of Kemal Ataturk and outlaw the tarboosh (fez in Turkey) as a symbol of the Old Order. Tarboosh-makers protested: a tarboosh, they argued, nicely covers a bald man's baldness and adds to a short man's stature. Whatever the effect of their plea, Naguib continued knocking a lot of tarbooshes off a lot of prominent heads. Most prominent: Abdul Rahman Azzam, secretary general of the Arab League...
...almost completely unknown in Cairo, London or Washington seven weeks ago-Major General Mohammed Naguib (pronounced Nageeb). He is now acclaimed by his people as a savior, and by Western diplomats as the most promising figure to appear in the Middle East since Turkey's late great Kemal Ataturk...