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...revolution had lost momentum, inevitably. Four months ago, Naguib had jailed 62 old-line politicians, including such discredited jobholders as Fuad Serag el Din, Wafd Party secretary general. Last week all were free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Longing for the Day | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

From the moment Strongman Mohammed Naguib proclaimed a revolution in Egypt, he began a furious fight against the nation's constitutional inertia. There was not much time. He had to transform Egypt before cowed politicians could make a comeback, and a fickle public got too impatient waiting for results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Longing for the Day | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...Naguib gave himself six months of supreme powers and personally took over jobs that would tax three ordinary men: Premier, defense minister, chief of staff. Twenty hours a day, seven days a week he labored. Once, at a cornerstone-laying ceremony, he blurted out: "Believe me, I am tired and prepared to give up office." But he stayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Longing for the Day | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...country passively awaited miracles, and complained when it saw none. Landlords grumbled because Naguib had ordered land redistribution; peasants grumbled because it had not happened. Hardest blow of all, and no fault of Na-guib's, was the sharp decline of King Cotton, the "white gold" that brings in most of Egypt's cash and (indirectly) the government's revenues. A worldwide textile slump had filled Egypt's warehouses to bursting with unsold cotton, slowed up all other business and forced Naguib to raid his dwindling treasury for $158 million to bail out growers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Longing for the Day | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

Purges & Production. For the past month, Cairo's rumor markets were astir with talk that a disenchanted Naguib was about to quit. Instead, Naguib's government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Longing for the Day | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

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