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...obstacles was King Farouk himself. Another was his bitter enemy, the corrupt Wafd Party, which still holds a comfortable majority in Egypt's Parliament. Farouk wanted first to clean up the mess of corruption in Egypt's politics, and then to come to sensible terms with the British over Suez. Maher preferred, instead, to string along with the potent Wafdists and their leader Serag el Din, a prime instigator of the nationalist riots, and with their help do what he could with the British...
Ahmed Naguib el Hilaly Pasha, 60, a mild-spoken man with a deceptive Milquetoast look, is an open enemy of Wafdist graft, an ex-member of the Wafd executive committee who was drummed out of the party only a few months ago for fighting the wholesale corruption from within. Scion of a wealthy family, Hilaly has made a fortune of his own practicing law. He has taught law at Fuad University and served in the cabinet at various times as Minister of Education and Minister of Commerce and Industry. A moderate, with a reputation for cutting candor and a nimble...
...Slums. Communists, anti-foreigner fanatics of the Moslem Brotherhood, and left-wing rebels worked together, directing the mobs that swept out from Cairo's unspeakable slums behind the great Moslem divinity school of Al-Azhar. At that point, the irresponsible Wafd government, unable to control the mobs it so often had incited, fell...
Publicly, the Wafd bowed to their monarch's decision. Premier Nahas paid Afifi a congratulatory call, chatted for 40 minutes. Wafdist Foreign Minister Salah el Din, an anti-British firebrand, now in Rome, swallowed hard and welcomed the two appointments as "a natural choice...
Hero of the hour was plump and platitudinous Mohammed Salah el Din, 49, Foreign Minister in Nahas Pasha's Wafd cabinet. Smiling Salah el Din is a dedicated nationalist with an extraordinarily sensitive skin (he breaks out in spots when exposed to Egypt's hot sunshine, never ventures outside without a protecting umbrella and gloves). His single-minded policy since his appointment last year: use every means-if necessary, threaten appeals to Russia-to get rid of those British and grab the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. To him, the Suez is dust in the enemy's eye; since...