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...Wafd Minister of Agriculture personally speculated in the cotton market and falsified crop reports to make a ?26,000 profit...
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...
...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...
...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...
Cairo was crawling with provocative rumors inspired by a bastard alliance of Communists and the rich men of the discredited Wafd party. The twelve-man Revolutionary Council was falling apart, whispered the rumormongers; its leaders were quarreling, its officers were selling out to the British. The brush-fire spread of the talk worried the men who 14 months ago wrested Egypt from the fat hands of King Farouk, for ruling Egypt is like riding a bicycle: keep rolling or you fall off. One night last week, the twelve officers went together to Cairo's jam-packed Liberation Square, climbed...