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...jointly. Inside, there are sharply divergent viewpoints. So far, Naguib, who outranks the others in years, prestige, personality and brains, has managed to keep the hotbloods pulling together; on crucial issues, he is boss. No officers accompany him to his almost daily private talk with his handpicked Premier, Aly Maher...
...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 on hearing the news...
...Farouk himself. Another was his bitter enemy, the corrupt Wafd Party, which still holds a comfortable majority in Egypt's Parliament. Farouk wanted first to clean up the mess of corruption in Egypt's politics, and then to come to sensible terms with the British over Suez. Maher preferred, instead, to string along with the potent Wafdists and their leader Serag el Din, a prime instigator of the nationalist riots, and with their help do what he could with the British...
Chill. Last week, on the very morning when Maher was to meet Britain's Ambassador Sir Ralph Stevenson to begin talks on settlement of the Anglo-Egyptian dispute, the Briton developed a sudden "chill" and sent his regrets to Maher by messenger. On medical grounds the chill was somewhat inexplicable, since Sir Ralph, hale & hearty, had been seen playing a rousing game of cricket only the day before. On diplomatic grounds it was easily explained: King Farouk himself had asked the Briton to call off the talks, since he was about to sack the Premier. Maher called a hasty...
...practicing law. He has taught law at Fuad University and served in the cabinet at various times as Minister of Education and Minister of Commerce and Industry. A moderate, with a reputation for cutting candor and a nimble wit, he shares none of the anti-Britishism which characterizes both Maher and the more fanatic Wafdists...