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...printed in helpfully large letters. The most conscientious elector (compelled to vote, or pay a $3 fine), retiring to his polling booth with a list of candidates six pages long, had a tough time finding as many as 30 names that he could recognize and mark. It took President Nasser himself four minutes to vote, though the day before he had gone over a list of all of the 210 candidates in his Cairo district...
After five years in power, President Nasser was setting out to create some sort of popular basis for his government. With his soldierly suspicion of all old-style politicians, he had decided to begin at the bottom. In last week's balloting Egyptians and Syrians elected 39,364 local councillors. These councillors would become members of Nasser's National Union, which, he insisted, is "not a single-party system but the framework within which the revolution now beginning will take place." Local councillors will choose provincial councillors, who in turn will elect a General Council for the whole...
...feel that we have only scratched the door of revolution," announced Nasser in an interview with his newspaper Al Ahram. "When the tide of aggression receded from our land, this was the first thing that came to my view: the time had come for real revolutionary action." Nasser confessed that when he came to power in 1952, his revolutionary group of army officers had not fully understood what they were working for. But after the Suez invasion, said he, they saw clearly that the job was to create a wholly new "cooperative socialist and democratic society." In the "radical change...
...campaign for competitive coexistence with Iraq, Nasser was able to take advantage of another set of coexisting competitors. Already accepting Soviet aid to build his Aswan Dam, Nasser last week signed an $8,000,000 agreement with the U.S. to resume the technical-aid program broken off in the Suez crisis...
Suez. U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold flew to Cairo to discuss release of the Danish freighter Inge Toft, seized by his Suez Canal officials last May for carrying Israeli cement and potash destined for Hong Kong and Tokyo. On the morning of Hammarskiold's arrival, Nasser's Al Ahram printed Nasser's declaration that the U.A.R. would hold the Inge Toft's cargo on the ground (rejected by the U.N. Security Council's decision in 1951) that his country was in "a state of war" with Israel. Beneath the autographed pictures of Nehru, Tito, Chou...