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...Premier Mohammed Naguib swung easily out the gate of Egypt's Revolutionary Command compound one day last week, whistling merrily. It soon developed that either he was whistling in the dark, or whistling because he was glad that it was all over...
Moving fast to consolidate the power he won after a six-week seesaw battle with Mohammed Naguib, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser turned last week to the problem of a faithless friend. During the years he risked his neck plotting the overthrow of King Farouk, Nasser handpicked every one of the 14 original members of the Revolutionary Command Council, including Major Khaled Mohed-dine. Nasser knew that husky, young (33) Moheddine had been a Communist, but he accepted his oath of loyalty and his pledge to quit the Communist Party...
When the showdown with Naguib started last February, however, Khaled Moheddine showed that his true color was still red. He led a group of cavalry officers who demanded that Nasser turn over all power to Naguib. Moheddine seemed to look upon Naguib as a kind of Kerensky of the Egyptian revolution, while imagining himself to be the eventual Lenin...
Nasser had to bow for a time to the Moheddine group. But by last week Mo hammed Naguib lay abed with a nervous breakdown, and Nasser was strong enough once more to exact payment for the broken pledge of ex-friend Moheddine. After a meeting of the R.C.C., it was revealed that Khaled Moheddine had resigned and would leave soon for Italy on a government mission, would thereafter take an extended European vacation. It was another measure of the gentleness which has so far marked Egypt's 21-month-old revolution. Had Major Moheddine and his Communist friends come...
...Lean On. In the midst of it all, Naguib, escorted by his bodyguard, drove to Cairo's airport to perform a routine ceremonial function: a goodbye to King Saud of Saudi Arabia, who last week made a royal visit to Cairo. Suddenly Naguib clutched at his heart and fell to the floor, unconscious. When he revived, bystanders reported that he whispered: "I want to die." Later, the man who helped the tottering Naguib was Colonel Abdel Nasser. They walked to his car together, Naguib leaning heavily on Nasser's arm. For the time being, Colonel Nasser was again...