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...Mohammed Naguib hopes to reorganize the league-and thereby the Middle East -under Egyptian leadership. As the Arab League delegates assembled in Cairo last week they were eager for a glimpse of the new strongman. He promptly snowed his hand, told Azzam to resign or be fired. Smiling, tarbooshed Azzam resigned. His successor: British-educated Abdel Khalek Hassouna, 53, onetime Egyptian Foreign Minister...
Egypt's Strongman Mohammed Naguib seemed likely last week to follow the example of Kemal Ataturk and outlaw the tarboosh (fez in Turkey) as a symbol of the Old Order. Tarboosh-makers protested: a tarboosh, they argued, nicely covers a bald man's baldness and adds to a short man's stature. Whatever the effect of their plea, Naguib continued knocking a lot of tarbooshes off a lot of prominent heads. Most prominent: Abdul Rahman Azzam, secretary general of the Arab League...
...Naguib drove in his big green staff car to the official palace of Prime Minister Aly Maher, asked him to quit. Aly did. "Authority," he said, "should be concentrated in the hands of the armed forces." By nightfall Naguib, still wearing his uniform, was Prime Minister and Minister of War & Marine...
...Naguib himself explained what lay behind the army's latest coup. "Speed," he said, "was one of the objectives of our movement." The army was exasperated by Aly Maher's slowcoach approach to the key issue of the whole cleanup movement: land reform. Instead of getting started on the breakup of large estates, Maher's Cabinet had hemmed & hawed, appointed one committee after another to "study" the question. Prices were still skyhigh, favoritism was still common in government promotion lists, and Wafdist politicians plotted to overthrow the new regime...
...Naguib knows that his revolution may collapse overnight unless it produces speedy and tangible benefits for Egypt's people. In his first statement as Premier, he promised: "One of the first plans we shall carry out is limitation of land possession and [reduction of] prices." To help him carry out his promise, he appointed a Deputy Premier-Soliman Hafez, an able, progressive lawyer-and an all-civilian Cabinet of 15 experts, only three of them politicians...