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...Mohammed Naguib has done a good job: changed the laws to encourage foreign capital; refused to reconvene the Parliament, which the corrupt Wafd Party dominates; freed the press, abolished censorship, the secret police and titles of nobility. He has vowed to limit the size of landholdings and to attack "indirect taxes whose burdens fall on the poor...
Seventy-three-year-old Nahas Pasha (now to be known simply as Mustafa el Nahas). who bosses Egypt's biggest political party, the corrupt Wafd, broke off a Swiss vacation at the news of Naguib's coup. He boarded a plane for the first time in his life and hastened to Naguib's side, crying: "It is my duty to pay a visit to the savior of the country." They talked for an hour and when they emerged. Nahas, catching sight of waiting photographers, cagily hooked elbows with Naguib and flashed his winning smile. But two days...
...olds, had failed on both counts. Both intervened to save their countries from nationalist fanatics, whose extremism threatened civil war. But Farouk's interventions, though courageous, were fitful; the Shah's too timid. Farouk, famed for yachts, gambling and women, lost his popular support to the corrupt Wafd Party; he antagonized his army by failing to clean out the extortionists in his own palace...
...behind Tabet's mission to the U.S. Ambassador was squat and suave Ahmed Aboud Pasha, one of the three top figures in the Wafd, a multimillionaire who dabbles in sugar, fertilizer and shipping lines. Premier Hilaly was poking into some 140 tax-evasion charges against Aboud which the Wafd had quashed before Hilaly came to office...
When Foreign Minister Hassouna Pasha finished, Hilaly seemed convinced. The next day a pro-Hilary newspaper plastered the story of the Wafd maneuverings over its front page, and when the Wafd indignantly denied it, Hilaly, an honest, conservative sort of man, snapped: "The report is not a lie. It is true...