Word: naguib
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...gunmen shot him down in broad daylight on a Cairo street. The movement went underground.When it legally emerged again in 1951, its popular resistance to King Farouk and the British gained it many fellow travelers, among them a young colonel named Gamel Abdel Nasser and a general named Mohammed Naguib...
Very Charming. At the airport, an Egyptian official greeted Jennie Lee with a bouquet of pink roses. Later, for 40 minutes, the couple chatted at the bedside of President Naguib who, in pajamas and dressing gown, was recovering from flu. "A great man," said Bevan later. "Very charming," added Jennie, "very charming." For another hour they had an audience with Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, Vice Premier and strongman of the military regime, who recited Egypt's argument on the Suez issue. "I merely listened," reported Bevan...
...Blimps. The former have the usual Socialist view of the U.S. and the Colonels are of even less help. They resent the fact that the Americans have taken over the power if not the glory that was the Empire's. They wanted to settle Mossadegh with gunboats and Naguib with the Hussars...
Egypt. Last May, Egypt's General Mohammed Naguib and his military junta were threatening war unless Britain ended her occupation of the Suez Canal zone. In three days in Egypt, Dulles impressed on Naguib the importance the U.S. attached to Britain's Suez base, the biggest military installation in the Middle East. Since Dulles' visit, Britain and Egypt have made progress toward an agreement which will give Egypt control of the Canal Zone but allow British military technicians to operate the base until Egyptians are taught...
...Eight Acres. At 10 the third morning, Abdel Hady, standing motionless before the court-martial, heard his fate: death by hanging; confiscation of his $900,000 fortune, except for the 48 acres of land he inherited from his father. Two days later, with a great show of magnanimity, President Naguib's twelve-man Revolutionary Command Council commuted Hady's sentence to life in prison...