Word: naguib
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...armies fought desperately to keep the new state from being pushed into the Mediterranean. Arab leaders all over the Middle East talk with increasing passion of a coming "second round" and the final defeat of Israel, the "cancer in the body of the Arab world," as Egypt's General Naguib phrased it. At present Israeli military strength is probably sufficient to repay any Arab attack with interest. The balance of military power in the Middle East may be shifting slowly toward the Arabs, however. In addition to their obvious advantages in manpower and resources, the Arab states are steadily modernizing...
Without even a corporal's guard to accompany them in case of trouble, two Egyptian army officers went to the ornate office of Mohammed Naguib in the Palace of the Republic this week, and told him he was through. Once he had been President, Premier, chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, and benevolent front man for the young officers who kicked out King Farouk and made Egypt a republic. His was the reassuring, pipe-smoking symbol of a new order in an ancient, long-misgoverned land...
...real ruler of the military junta was 36-year-old Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, who in a test of strength with Naguib last February got himself made Premier and let Naguib stay on in a presidential figurehead job only because of Naguib's immense popularity in the streets. Since then, Nasser has felt increasingly confident of surviving without Naguib's prestige. Last week Nasser saw his chance, when a Moslem Brotherhood leader testified that Naguib had prior knowledge of a recent plot to kill Nasser...
This week came the announcement: "The R.C.C. has today relieved Mohammed Naguib"; he was banished to a comfortable house in the suburbs. The Cairo streets took the news quietly. "That's like Nasser," said a diplomat. "He lets them dangle until they're ready to drop anyhow. Now nobody cares...
Until the shooting, the people had never, given Gamal Abdel Nasser the affection they gave his pipe-smoking predecessor, General Naguib. Now, as Nasser's train passed through the delta cities, returning to Cairo, huge crowds spontaneously came out to cheer him. At the Cairo railway station, 100,000 people surged against police lines crying, "God bless Gamal." Besieged by admirers reaching out to embrace him, the Premier needed two hours to make what was ordinarily a ten-minute drive to his office. Eight wild shots had served him well...