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Three-Year Dictatorship. For 20 minutes Naguib spoke, while overhead jets ripped across rooftops. Then at a signal the crowd rose and repeated after him Egypt's new creed, the Liberation Oath: "Almighty God, you love the strong and detest the meek. You spread your mercy over those who prefer to die in dignity for the sake of liberty to a life of dishonor in a realm of bondage . . . We swear by Thy Holy Name to work to our utmost [for a country] free from wicked passions and compatible with what is right and just . . . Our motto shall always...
...Take confidence and be joyful this day," said Naguib, and the crowd obeyed. It surged through Cairo's streets, past lampposts painted in the new liberation colors (red for the liberation struggle, black for the darkness of the past, white for hope), past huge reproductions of TIME'S cover portrait of Naguib. So began four days of rejoicing which also marked another milestone: exactly one year had elapsed since the bloody, costly anti-foreign riots which hastened the fall of the old regime. Now through Cairo's streets a gay throng marched, munching rice and meat sandwiches...
...Easier Life. "No longer will anyone have selfish aims . . . The nation will be given a free and noble life. Everything will be done to see that no one is hungry or ignorant." So proclaimed Naguib's new society. The promises ran far ahead of performance: so far only a handful of Egypt's fellahin, who are among the world's most ill-treated people, have begun to share in Naguib's land redistribution. But one benefit Naguib has already bestowed: the government has made sharp cuts in the cost of basic foodstuffs and clothing. Life...
...army Free Officers Committee that fired King Farouk and installed Naguib as ruler of Egypt has come to be known as The Fourteen. From the beginning they all knew that one of their number-Captain Yussef Sadek-was married to a Communist and himself talked like one. Still, Captain Sadek worked hard, did the jobs assigned to him efficiently and well...
Sadek was ordered to appear before Naguib's No. 2 man, Lieut. Colonel Abdel Nasser; he was asked whether he had made the remarks. Hotheadedly, Sadek answered yes, and what's more, he wanted five anti-Communists ousted from The Fourteen; he also demanded that martial law be lifted and imprisoned Reds be released...