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...weeks ago, with Cairo literally aflame and his people running riot in the streets, Egypt's King appointed a new Premier to head his government. Last week, after the second shortest tenure (34 days) in the history of the office, the new Premier resigned. "Certain obstacles," departing Aly Maher Pasha explained to the King, "stood in the way of the completion of my mission...
...editor, N.A.M. picked one of its own staffers, Edward Maher, 49, once editor of Liberty and founder of a short-lived Washington daily "trade paper of Government." In U.S.A.'s 128 pages, Editor Maher plans to run 15 articles a month, a lead editorial, and one condensed book. The first issue's articles range from inflation and Anglo-American relations to atomic energy and the Soviet mind, with such contributors as ex-Satevepost Editorial Writer Garet Garrett, Southern Democrat Senator Harry Byrd, General Electric's engineering boss, Harry A. Winne, Historian and Editorial Writer Gerald W. Johnson...
...Premier, 68-year-old Aly Maher Pasha, worked 18 hours a day restoring order. Simultaneously, he worked to ease the lot of the destitute whose unrest threatens Egypt. He cut kerosene and sugar prices, started investigations into rice and textile profiteering, ordered his ministers to give up their fancy limousines and limit themselves to one Ford apiece...
...also made receptive gestures toward the British. Ambassador Sir Ralph Stevenson was received in audience by King Farouk for the first time since Egypt abrogated its treaty with Britain in October. Maher Pasha announced: "We are ready to consider any understanding Mr. Eden might propose...
...that would satisfy Egypt's "legitimate national aspirations" without jeopardizing "the security of the free world." That solution rested on selling Egypt on a Middle East command, in which Egypt, Britain, the U.S., France and Turkey would jointly replace the British as defenders of the Suez Canal. Aly Maher was interested, and guarded hope filled...