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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...
...Father of All the Turks (who left no legitimate heirs) was born in 1881 in Salonika, then part of the Ottoman Empire, of a mild Albanian father and a forceful Macedonian mother. Mustafa was a rebel from the start. His pious Mohammedan mother urged him to become a holy man, but he became a soldier; at 22, a captain, he rebelled against the Sultan and was nearly executed; at 27, he joined the Young Turks rebellion, then rebelled against the Young Turks. The army, fearful of him, shunted him from post to post, but could neither shake him nor subdue...
...Mustafa Kemal Pasha returned from his skillful but useless defense of Syria and asked for a job. "Get this man away-anywhere-quickly," the Sultan cried. The government hoped to save itself by submission to the conqueror; Kemal's unyielding patriotism endangered these schemes. So Mustafa got magnificent and meaningless titles-Inspector General of the Northern Area and Governor General of the Eastern Provinces-and was put aboard a leaky Black Sea steamer bound for Samsun, in remote Anatolia...
...Sevres. The last British admiral boarded the last British battleship in the Bosporus, snapped a respectful salute to the crescent flag and steamed off. The most defeated of enemies became the first to defy the victorious Allies, to scrap one of their treaties. The Ataturk miracle had begun: Mustafa Kemal, soldier, was master of Turkey...
...Wafdist regime had been making ready to concede much more to Britain than the present government; this was a clear indication that the Revolutionary Council was about ready to come to terms on a good, sound Suez deal. Grimacing from behind his dark glasses, Salem mimicked old Mustafa Nahas, and the crowd, in stitches, shouted the Arabic equivalent of "Give 'em hell, Salem!" At his elbow sat Premier Mohammed Naguib, offering encouragement...