Word: naguib
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Egypt. "My first reaction," said Strongman Naguib, "was to pray to Allah to give mercy to a great...
...Naguib capped his triumphant week with a satisfying announcement: he plans to visit the U.S. "in the very near future...
...Mabrûk, Mabrûk!" (congratulations), murmured Stevenson and Naguib to each other as they signed the blue-paged agreement. Naguib, his face a picture of glee (see cut), held aloft the fountain pen and said: "I will send it to the museum." Newsmen and photographers hugged and bussed him; guards, overcome with emotion, bent to kiss his hand, were told sharply: "Give me a strong handshake. That would be better." From Washington came a strong handshake: "This Government is highly gratified...
Three men made the settlement possible: Naguib, Stevenson, and the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Jefferson Caffery. Taciturn, levelheaded, 66-year-old Caffery, dean of the U.S. Foreign Service (he was chief of a mission back in Hoover's Administration), was the honest broker for the great diplomatic triumph. Naguib last week paid him a well-earned tribute: "It was through Ambassador Caffery's good offices that many difficult points were ironed out." Some old-style British imperialists were horrified by the agreement, arguing that it was one more British retreat, like India, Burma and Abadan...
Nonetheless, if Britain had made concessions, so had Naguib. It was through his statesmanlike decision last November, at a time when his countrymen were inflamed against the British, that Egypt for the first time recognized the Sudan's right to self-determination. He also withdrew Egypt's paralyzing refusal to negotiate over the Sudan until British forces evacuated Suez...