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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...
...Dismissal of Wafdist Premier Nahas Pasha...
...Strange Quiet. After Cairo's violence had run its course, with an estimated 62 dead, the Wafdist (Nationalist) cabinet finally bestirred itself. Its leaders went to the palace, and winning Farouk's approval, clapped all Cairo under martial law. Curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. was imposed; the press was put under censorship...
Expert on England, David E. Owen, professor of History, stated that at present there was "a temporary lull which may or may not produce later fireworks." The ouster of the Wafdist group and subsequent appointment of the new independent cabinet was necessitated by the emergency conditions, according to Owen. He was unsure whether or not Maher Pasha's government would meet with any success. "It must first," he said, "get a working agreement during the present breathing spell...
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...