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Victory for military extremists in Egypt sees Aly Maher ousted and General Naguib installed as prime minister. For all of you reading this it is from the archives of the guardian newspaper of this day in 1952, Most of you would not have been around for this excerpt in Egypts troubled past but the similarities can not be ignored.. How much has been learned that there will always be uncertaintys in this part of the world. PLEASE read the rest of this and then give me reasons why the Army should relinquish there hold on to power at this moment in time....... returning to archive. .
General Naguib, who yesterday assumed the post of Prime Minister and Minister of War, as well as that of Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian forces, has now rounded up more political leaders to join the fifty he had caused to be arrested yesterday. He also held his first Cabinet meeting in Cairo this morning.
What the General intends to do with his political prisoners is not yet clear. The bag is a very mixed one. While it might well be that the secretary-general of the Wafd party, Serag ed-Din, and other politicians with dubious records might be faced with a court of inquiry into the means by which they amassed their considerable fortunes, it seems hardly likely that men like Naguib Hilaly, the former Independent Prime Minister, Mortada Moraghy, or the four arrested Saadist leaders will be submitted to similar treatment. Hilaly's crime may be no graver than that he was the last Prime Minister to serve ex-King Farouk and accepted the latter's brother-in-law as War Minister in his Cabinet. The Saadist leaders' offence may be the strong action that their party took against the Moslem Brotherhood after one of the brotherhood's members had assassinated Nokrashy Pasha, the Saadist Prime Minister, in 1948. If that is so it must be regarded as a measure of the influence exerted on General Naguib by the extremists among his supporters. He has included two extreme Nationalists in his new Cabinet. End of archive. lets all .hope that there is no more bloodshed on the streets of Egypt. Please feel free to comment on this article Regards A+A