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Hammarskjold's C-47 took off from Cairo's International Airport, a sleek new fighter plane flashed aloft from Almaza military airfield just four miles away The plane: one of the first of Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser's new Russian MIG jets to be seen over Egypt...
...Premier David Ben-Gurion sized him up as a valuable person to be traveling about the Middle East, buttonholed him at once to press his pet plan for Palestine peace-bilateral negotiations with Egypt's Nasser under U.N. chairmanship. Ben-Gurion is pushing this idea to avert mediation by Western powers, and particularly to keep out the British, whom the Israelis regard as pro-Arab. As in Cairo, Hammarskjold listened sympathetically, and would only say that he had now "got a fairly complete map" of the problems...
Fifty thousand Egyptians crowded under a vast, quilted tent in Cairo's Republic Square one evening last week to hear Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser proclaim his long-promised constitution. This was the moment when Egypt was to pass from military dictatorship to "republican and democratic government." To mark the switch, Nasser and his eight-man junta had resigned their army commissions. They took their places on the platform wearing civilian clothes. "The true revolution begins today," orated Nasser. "The whole people will constitute a supreme council for the revolution." "Ascha Gamal!" (Long live Gamal), chorused the crowd...
Down to the last page, Nasser's constitution resounded with promises of rights and freedom-the right to work, the right to pensions, freedom of press, speech, assembly, worship. Nasser and his experts had studied many constitutions, but above all the American-and the words rang resoundingly. But Nasser does not believe that Egypt is ready for such rights and freedom: he fears to turn the country back to "the old politicians" until his dedicated group has made more progress against Egypt's immemorial poverty, disease, corruption. So on the last page, Nasser's constitution...
There seems no reason to doubt that both Mister Nasser and his constitution suit Egyptians fine as of now. His coups in playing off both West and East have fed his country's hungry pride. The new constitution backs his latest bid for Arab-bloc leadership by proclaiming Egypt "an integral part of the Arab nation," which ethnically it is not. It also declares that "Islam is the religion of the State," but gives no say to the Ulema (see above) as to how the country shall...