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...story in TIME this week on Egypt's political convulsions involving Mohammed Naguib and Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser (see FOREIGN NEWS) came as no real surprise to the editors in New York−nor will it to the TIME readers who have followed the recent stories on Egyptian politics. The reason was some perceptive, hard-digging reporting by TIME'S Jim Bell, now in Bonn, Germany after a three-year tour in the Middle East...
Pipe-smoking President-Premier Mohammed Naguib, twinkling good will, likes to tour Egypt's hinterland in his favorite role: father of the people. Last week, when fire devastated the Nile village of Ibyar and razed 102 houses, he set forth on a special train to reassure the hundreds of homeless. On the way back to Cairo, his train stopped at neighboring Kafr ez-Zaiyat. As he stood on the back platform, acknowledging the cheers of 50,000 local fellahin, disaster paid a return visit. The Cairo-Alexandria Express roared down the northbound track, cutting a bloody swath through...
...Used. The very day Naguib's military junta ousted King Farouk and took over Egypt, Lieut. Colonel Nasser, chief of the Revolutionary Command Council, dispatched an urgent message to one of the most powerful men in Egypt: Hassan el Hodeiby, the Brotherhood's new Supreme Guide. Would the Brotherhood please support the new regime...
...there could be no peace between the fundamentally progressive, Western-influenced Naguib regime and the West-hating, reactionary Brotherhood. Either Nasser would crush the Brotherhood or be crushed by it. Last June the revolutionary regime got word that Brotherhood agents were inflaming dissident police and army men, to prepare a coup...
...would the public take this forthright action? Two days later, the regime's pipe-smoking front man, President-Premier Naguib, walked into a Cairo mosque for Friday prayers. He was wildly cheered...