Word: wafdists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officers, ''cashiered for reasons connected with their military conduct" in last November's Anglo-French-Israeli invasion, planned to break in on a Cabinet meeting, bump off everybody, and install a civilian regime headed by Mohammed Salah el Din, 55, Foreign Minister in the last Wafdist government, before Nasser's 1952 revolution...
...trouble began when Strongmen Mohammed Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser started their tug of war last March (TIME, March 8). The Aboul Paths and Nasser had long been friends, but the friendship shifted as rapidly as the Egyptian political winds changed. Al Misri demanded Nasser follow the Wafdist political line. When Nasser refused, the paper savagely attacked the brothers' old friend and his government. In court last week the government's prosecutor accused the Aboul Fath brothers of more than national disloyalty. Hussein was charged with intimidating public officials to get the government to buy machine guns...
...workroom by the Nile, had miscalculated the country's temper. He had underestimated the popular appeal of General Mohammed Naguib, overestimated the unity of the officers' corps (which turned out to be honeycombed with fellow travelers), misjudged the troublemaking .capacity of the supposedly cowed Wafdist politicians and Moslem Brotherhood. To bring the shaken-up Revolutionary regime back into the confidence of the people, political salesmanship was called...
...regime set up a special three-officer revolutionary tribunal, made it supreme over all other courts, empowered it to hand down death sentences on traitors, rounded up scores of suspects and began trying them this week. Among the arrested: two ex-Premiers of the Farouk era, including the discredited Wafdist chief, Mustafa Nahas...
...Naguib government was not only out to face down its opponents, but also to prepare Egypt for a new agreement with the British over the future of the Suez Canal zone. Propaganda Chief Salah Salem told the crowd that the old Wafdist regime had been making ready to concede much more to Britain than the present government; this was a clear indication that the Revolutionary Council was about ready to come to terms on a good, sound Suez deal. Grimacing from behind his dark glasses, Salem mimicked old Mustafa Nahas, and the crowd, in stitches, shouted the Arabic equivalent...