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...holds a comfortable majority in Egypt's Parliament. Farouk wanted first to clean up the mess of corruption in Egypt's politics, and then to come to sensible terms with the British over Suez. Maher preferred, instead, to string along with the potent Wafdists and their leader Serag el Din, a prime instigator of the nationalist riots, and with their help do what he could with the British...
...protests against the search led in turn to a telephone call relayed from Britain's sorely tried Suez Commander in Chief Sir George Erskine to Egyptian Interior Minister Serag el Din. General Erskine's demand: the Egyptian police must hand over their weapons and evacuate the Canal Zone. Otherwise, warned the British commander, Ismailia's police headquarters would be "destroyed by force." Serag el Din turned the ultimatum down cold and ordered his policemen to "resist to the last bullet...
Vengeance with Flames. The respect was not mutual. In Cairo, 75 miles to the southwest, Interior Minister Serag el Din took to the air and harangued the people with bogus tales of British atrocities in Ismailia. The British had routed Moslem women out of their beds, he said, and hauled them half-naked into the streets...
Silent Parade. Interior Minister Serag el Din called in the Cairo press, read them a lecture on falsifying the news with their absurd stories of British atrocities. He announced that the ragtail "liberation battalions" would be absorbed into the regular army, where the authorities could keep an eye on them...
...Serag el Din and Madame Nahas occasionally do the nightclub circuit around Cairo. This produces a set routine: just as they come to the side entrance, the lights have a habit of failing, then coming on as soon as they are safely seated behind a couple of partially obscuring potted palms...