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Interview in the Palace. Twenty minutes later, Mohammed Ali stood before the Governor General, 59-year-old Ghulam Mohammed, a big rugged man who derives his powers-in the absence of a Pakistan constitution-from the British crown, which appointed him. Beside the Governor General stood the strongman of the Pakistan army, Major General Iskander Mirza. "I am dissolving the Constituent Assembly tomorrow," announced Ghulam to the Prime Minister. "You will remain Prime Minister, but you will reform your Cabinet. Major General Mirza will be your Minister of the Interior. General Ayub Khan will become Defense Minister as well...
Last week, in the graceful, columned Pharaonic hall of the Egyptian Parliament, the British finally agreed, once and for all, to leave. Britain's 34-year-old Minister of State Anthony Nutting signed the agreement with Egypt's equally young, 36-year-old strongman, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser. The 80,000 British troops are to begin embarking immediately from the Suez Canal Zone. By June 18, 1956-20 months from now-Egypt will be free of uniformed Britons for the first time in nearly three-quarters of a century, and master in its own house for the first...
Brazil's pent-up pressures had been building almost from the day in 1950 when Onetime Dictator Getulio Vargas swept to power in an astounding election comeback. Strangely enough, the strongman who had once bent 40 million Brazilians to his will turned out to be a donothing President. He worked hard but ineffectually, giving so much time and energy to political maneuvering that almost none was left for establishing the leadership that he, of all Brazilians, might have proclaimed...
...swung his country to the Allied side. The U.S. established a string of air bases across Brazil's strategic Atlantic bulge, and Vargas sent a division to General Mark Clark's command on the Italian front. Benignly accepting the title of "father of the poor," the strongman also gave Brazil the 48-hour week, the minimum wage, and social security...
...three years since the wild man of Iranian politics, Mohammed Mossadegh, nationalized his country's oil industry and started his country on the road to economic and political ruin. Undoing the mischief and getting the disputants back together took skilled diplomacy. Iran's young Shah and his strongman Premier, General Fazlollah Zahedi, had to operate in an ugly, xenophobic climate created by demagogues and Communists. Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. (owned 53% by the British government) was unwilling to assent to any agreement that seemed to reward illegal seizure, for fear of the effect it would have on other...