Word: naguib
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Congratulations on the excellent cover story on Mexico's President Ruiz Cortines [TIME, Sept. 14]. With Naguib in Egypt, and Ike in America, one is moved to hope the usual moral decay following war is about over. After the long and dreary procession of aged, powerful murderers, sly and clever phonies, eggheads, screwball Messiahs, hotshots, white-haired, fast-buck boys and just plain internationally celebrated jerks-it is refreshing to realize that an oldfashioned, honest man is, at long last, news...
...Naguib government was not only out to face down its opponents, but also to prepare Egypt for a new agreement with the British over the future of the Suez Canal zone. Propaganda Chief Salah Salem told the crowd that the old Wafdist regime had been making ready to concede much more to Britain than the present government; this was a clear indication that the Revolutionary Council was about ready to come to terms on a good, sound Suez deal. Grimacing from behind his dark glasses, Salem mimicked old Mustafa Nahas, and the crowd, in stitches, shouted the Arabic equivalent...
Kissing the Kaaba. The focus of the hajj is the Kaaba, an almost cubical block of stone 45 ft. high, which Moslems believe was built by Abraham. This year, for the first time, it was illumined by neon lights. Mingling with the devout, Naguib performed the seven traditional circuits of the Kaaba, and managed to get close enough to kiss it, as millions had done before him. Outside Mecca, on the plain of Arafat, he arrived at the immense tent city which springs up for one day and vanishes again at nightfall. He sacrificed two rams and made...
...Moslem world, religious and political actions are often so closely intertwined as to be inseparable. Naguib did not forget politics in the swirling fervors of the hajj. On the hill of Arafat, surrounded by his followers, he uttered this prayer: "Almighty God, give us victory in driving the British out of Egypt, and deliver Morocco from the French. We beseech you to help Arab and Islamic countries to fulfill their aims. May the religion of Allah be strengthened, and may those who support it emerge victorious...
...Glad to See You." From Mecca, Naguib went southeast to Taif. There, King Ibn Saud, sitting in a wheelchair, greeted Naguib with a cry of "Marhaba, marhaba!" (Welcome, welcome). Said Naguib: "Glad to see you, Your Majesty." Naguib gave Ibn Saud a huge (6½-by-5-ft.) photo of himself in a gilded frame; Ibn Saud gave his guest a gold sword, three Persian rugs, a fragment of holy carpet from the Kaaba. Later the two heads of state dined together and talked privately for 20 minutes. About Arab solidarity? Almost certainly...