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Zeezee did not like the simple life. She bought an elaborate beige villa in Cairo's exclusive Garden City. She bought land, jewels, fancy clothes. Wafd ministers who refused her demands for illegal import licenses were fired; others quit. She and her great & good friend, fat Fuad Serag el Din, the Wafd's secretary general, were frequently seen together in public, made profitable deals in private...
...sleepy-eyed politicians and former palace officials, jailed the lot in Cairo's army school. Among those arrested: nine ex-Cabinet ministers and two ex-Premiers (Ibrahim Abdul Hadi, 52, president of the rightwing Saadist Party, and Ahmed Naguib el Hilary, 60, Independent). The prize catch: Fuad Serag el Din, the hippopotamine secretary general of the graft-ridden Wafd Party. At 7:15 a.m., Cairo Radio broadcast a communique from General Naguib: "Citizens! The army movement was not directed solely against the ex-King [Farouk]. It was, still is, and will continue to be a sword unsheathed against corruption...
...have had enough of corruption!" he cried. But the Wafd, Egypt's largest and most graft-ridden party, which Naguib turned out together with Farouk, only laughed in his face and is scheming day and night to recapture power. Its big wheels, Mustafa Nahas (ex-Premier) and Serag el Din, used the magic word "purge" to get rid of their rivals, then started plotting to get rid of Naguib. Their plan is to smear Naguib as unpatriotic for failing to throw the British out of Suez and the Sudan. Naguib's counterplan: a stiff electoral reform law, excluding...
...Warn." Naguib told the political parties: "Purge yourselves," and in three days the corrupt Wafd expelled 14 small fry, including three former ministers, hoping Naguib wouldn't notice that the two big boys, Mustafa el Nahas and Fuad Serag el Din were still running things. But Naguib did notice, snapped: "I am not satisfied." This week he added: "We have advised. Now we warn. Next we shall act. We have had enough of corruption...
...land reform. "A pact with Russia," he cried, "has become an absolute necessity." He became an executive in the Communist "peace" movement, and soon had enough money to start a few newspapers. Meanwhile, he protected his right wing by striking up a friendship with Wafd Party Secretary General Fuad Serag...