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Mohammed Naguib hopes to reorganize the league-and thereby the Middle East -under Egyptian leadership. As the Arab League delegates assembled in Cairo last week they were eager for a glimpse of the new strongman. He promptly snowed his hand, told Azzam to resign or be fired. Smiling, tarbooshed Azzam resigned. His successor: British-educated Abdel Khalek Hassouna, 53, onetime Egyptian Foreign Minister...
Egypt's Strongman Mohammed Naguib seemed likely last week to follow the example of Kemal Ataturk and outlaw the tarboosh (fez in Turkey) as a symbol of the Old Order. Tarboosh-makers protested: a tarboosh, they argued, nicely covers a bald man's baldness and adds to a short man's stature. Whatever the effect of their plea, Naguib continued knocking a lot of tarbooshes off a lot of prominent heads. Most prominent: Abdul Rahman Azzam, secretary general of the Arab League...
Egypt's reluctant strongman, Major General Mohammed Naguib, stopped being reluctant. He had tried to stay in the background and run things through Prime Minister Aly Maher. This week Naguib threw out Aly, took over as Premier and, in fact, dictator...
Cuba's Strongman Fulgencio Batista, making a friendly bow toward his great & good neighbor to the north, announced that a small park on Havana's seawall drive will be officially dedicated next month as "Fourth of July Park...
...Assembly vote), Rhee's opponents boycotted the Assembly. Without a legal quorum, the Assembly voted, 60-to-0 with 37 abstentions, to keep Rhee in office until a new President is elected. Lacking a quorum the move was hardly legal, but it seemed nevertheless to leave Strongman Syngman in the saddle...