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Last week Fuad Serag el Din sat before the bar of justice in a Cairo court, smoking cigarettes instead of cigars, his expensive suit bagging a little on his thinning frame. He was on trial for his life on nine charges of misusing his powerful position in the Wafd and in the government...
Three years ago, fat Fuad Serag el Din was one of Egypt's masters. He planted his bulk firmly behind a huge desk equipped with seven phones, four squawk-boxes, three fountain pens and a mound of specially rolled, bat-sized Havanas, and bossed the secret police as Interior Minister, the treasury as Finance Minister, and the nation's No.1 political party as secretary general of the Wafd...
...three-man court-composed of officers of the Revolutionary Command Council-had prepared carefully. For 50 days they had led a parade of eminent witnesses-ex-Premiers, senior civil servants, big-time politicians-through a tour of the hidden sewers of the Farouk regime, hoping thereby to discredit Farouk, Serag el Din and the Wafd all at once. To a large extent, they succeeded. Items of testimony...
...revolution had lost momentum, inevitably. Four months ago, Naguib had jailed 62 old-line politicians, including such discredited jobholders as Fuad Serag el Din, Wafd Party secretary general. Last week all were free...
Recently Cairo's crusading newspaper Akhbar el Yom printed a transcript of tapped phone talks that showed how she operated. The time of the talks: a few days after the Naguib coup. Zeezee, then in Switzerland, called Serag el Din in Cairo and ordered him to maneuver a chosen candidate into the Regency Council which Naguib was setting up. "Hader" (At your service), said Serag el Din. Then she called her husband, repeated her instructions. "At your order," replied Nahas meekly. As an afterthought, she told him to send her some more Swiss francs because she had already spent...