Word: strongmanism
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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...
Last week there was one leader in the Arab world who seemed to know what to do and to be willing to do it. In a third-floor office in the Syrian general staff headquarters in Damascus, flanked by clanging phones and beset by sniffles and fatigue, Strongman Colonel Adib Shishekly held in his tough fists the key that might possibly unlock the refugee problem. He has just signed an agreement with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for a $30 million project to irrigate the potentially rich, unpopulated and undeveloped northern stretches of his country. On this reclaimed...
...Party sat around the highceilinged, marble-floored reception room in the ornate mansion of their boss, Mustafa el Nahas, sipped Turkish coffee and waited. Inside the library, old Nahas and the party's other top bosses were trying to decide whether to bow down to Egypt's Strongman Mohammed Naguib or to defy him. Their decision might affect the fate of Naguib's well-intentioned, energetic reform movement, and the future of Egypt...
...shouted: "No leader but Nahas!" till the tapestried walls shook. The feeble old man, his face streaming tears, was led by aides to the top of a sweeping marble staircase. Then, in a near-hysterical shriek, he gave his answer and threw down the gauntlet to Egypt's strongman: he was determined to stay on as the Wafd's leader. "God and the confidence of the Egyptian people in me," he cried, "are the source of my strength...
Diplomats in London and Washington wondered out loud whether Naguib in his enthusiasm was pushing too far and too fast. Summary expropriation of land, for example, might dislocate the country's agriculture, cause food shortages. Strongman Naguib seemed prepared to take that risk...