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...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...
...Rehabilitation of Iranian oil fields. 53. Chief target of Mohammed Naguib's "anticorruption" drive in troubled Egypt is the Wafd: 1. A young-fascist league...
...weeks ago, Egypt's two strong men swore mighty oaths. Mustafa el Nahas, the old (75) pro, five times Prime Minister, since 1927 chief of the powerful and corrupt Wafd Party, vowed: "No power after God can force me from this position except the people." General Mohammed Naguib, the new Prime Minister, proclaimed a law requiring Egypt's political parties to purge themselves of corrupt leaders, and vowed: "The law is sacred, and will be applied to Mustafa el Nahas as to anyone else...
Last week these irreconcilable vows came into conflict, and it was General Naguib who held the field when the smoke of battle blew away. Defeated Nahas summoned the Wafd Executive Council to his ornate home, announced that he was quitting, screamed at his followers to get out of the way, and then stumbled upstairs to political oblivion, crying bitterly...
Naguib said nothing about Nahas and the Wafd, but the purpose of his tour was plain. Said a veteran Egyptian political reporter: "Nahas is finished...