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Among the Misri Effendis, the long-suffering John Does of Egypt, there were some who framed the likeness of President Naguib in their mud homes by the Nile, or sought to touch his clothes as he passed by. There were others more concerned with the fact that loaves were smaller, sugar more costly and wages no higher than they were when the President came to power a year ago. When Naguib gave 853 lucky fellahin the deeds to some of the rich man's land, the new landowners were gleeful and gay for the photographers (who are always...
...Week. Last week Egypt celebrated the first anniversary of Naguib's "Blessed Movement" in fine, military style. For two hours, crisp recruits tramped down Cairo's tapestried streets, while helicopters scattered Naguib posters from above. Next day 4,000 Liberation Rally guerrillas snapped past beneath their death's-head emblem, and later chanted Allah Akhbar, Allah Akhbar. Then paratroops, Egypt's first, jumped into Heliopolis race track. "We have the means," cried Naguib, "to throw the British out of the Canal Zone any time we want." At 11:05 on Liberation night, the time the army...
...June 8] letters of C. C. McKinnon and Philip R. Stephenson: Who are these British subjects who feel they have the right to criticize our President? President Eisenhower had every right to offer the hand of friendship to a man [General Naguib] whose only crime seems to be that he possesses the courage to tell the almighty British where...
...little later, slender Major General Mohammed Naguib, front man in the military coup which toppled playboy King Farouk from his throne last July, went on the air as the Republic of Egypt's first Premier and President. ". . . We proclaim today," said he, "in the name of the people, abolition of the monarchy...
...Egypt's 20 million, abolished the regency set up after Farouk's exile and made young (1½) Fuad, Farouk's son and heir to the throne, just another Egyptian. It left Egypt in the charge of four soldiers, who now have new official titles: Premier Naguib, the "public-relations man" of the military junta, his Vice Premier, Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, 35, the real strongman of the bloodless revolution, and two other Egyptian army officers loyal to Nasser, and therefore to Naguib...