Word: naguib
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...weeks went by. Bell continued to watch and TIME to report the under cover play for power in Egyptian politics. Two months ago Bell advised New York: "It is believed that the decision to relieve Naguib of the premiership, leaving him only an Auriol-like status, has already been made...
Last week, by chance in Cairo on a special assignment, Bell was on hand to confirm his predictions. Along with TIME'S present Middle East Correspondent Keith Wheeler and part-time Cairo Correspondent Mohamed Wagdi, he helped report the ousting of Naguib, Egypt's popular symbol, and his recall in this latest test of power...
...huge, bay-windowed Cairo office, President-Premier Mohammed Naguib last week puffed his pipe and busied himself with an agreeable task. He set out various photos of himself, cocked his head at them, then, with the help of curio dealers, selected appropriate silver frames. He was going to Khartoum in a few days as Egypt's delegate to the first session of the Sudan Parliament; the pictures would be gifts for his hosts. At 53, the native son was returning to his birthplace...
...that very moment Egypt's real government−the young, twelve-man Revolutionary Command Council−was holding an emergency session to decide Naguib's fate. Three days before he had delivered an ultimatum: either the R.C.C. would give him the right to veto its decisions, to appoint and dismiss Cabinet ministers and to promote and cashier army officers, or he would quit. Naguib felt no uneasiness; since Farouk departed in July 1952, the amiable major general had become Mr. Egypt. He put on his general's cap and went home, confident...
...yellow, Nileside palace where Farouk once dallied, the R.C.C. fretted and wrestled with its decision. Nineteen months before the young soldiers, seeking a front man for the anti-Farouk uprising, had picked the bluff, respected, thrice-wounded soldier. The choice was happy: the nation cried "Yahish [long live] Mohammed Naguib," and flocked to him, holding out its centuries-old wounds. Naguib looked as a good father should−kindly, wise, genial. He smoked a pipe; he spoke softly and slowly; he waved aside guards and let the lowly approach. When they tried to kiss his hands, he would raise...