Word: naguib
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this changed abruptly with last July's military coup, which resulted in Farouk's exile. General Mohammed Naguib showed himself to be just as sensitive to criticism as his predecessor, but less determined to censor criticism from abroad. After Naguib became a cover subject himself (TIME, Sept. 8), Correspondent Dave Richardson brought him a copy of the story. Entitled "A Good Man," the story told of the start of Naguib's rise to power...
...general read it during a break in an all-night meeting with his Army Committee, scribbled in his comments and returned it to Richardson. One line in the story seemed to have found Naguib's Achilles' heel. Comparing him with Turkey's Kemal Ataturk, the story read: "Naguib, a simpler man, lacks Ataturk's grasp of politics, his vision, his rousing oratory; he may also lack his iron will to rule." Naguib had crossed out these words and had scribbled in the margin: "How did you know all this? It is not true...
About three months later, Richardson and TIME's part-time Cairo correspondent, Mohammed Wagdi, visited Naguib to present him with Ernest Hamlin Baker's original cover portrait. When Richardson reminded him of their earlier meeting, Naguib grinned broadly, bent over to autograph a copy of the TIME cover for Richardson with the words: "I am grateful to TIME forever." Naguib then told TIME's correspondents that he intended to stay in power until Egypt had reached a point where the policies he had begun would be carried on of their own momentum...
Last month Naguib's approval of TIME seemed to be spreading to his countrymen. At the four-day celebration of the first half year of his reign, Naguib announced to a Cairo crowd his plan for a three-year dictatorship. During the parade that followed, the crowds passed shop windows which featured reproductions of Baker's painting of Naguib-blown up to twice the size of the original...
...Britain will quit the million-square-mile area (one-third the size of the U.S.), and allow the 8,000,000 Sudanese to decide their own political future. "A new page has been turned in the relations between Egypt and the United Kingdom," cried Egypt's Strongman Mohammed Naguib, "a page that restores confidence and augurs well." "A new era of friendship," agreed Britain's Ambassador Sir Ralph Stevenson...