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AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN GROWTH AND ACTION
governmental structure for several
Egypt months voted on May 5, 1953 to
becomes end 5,000 years of monarchy in
a republic favor of a republican form of gov-
with Naguib ernment. On June 18th Egypt be-
as President came a republic with General Na-
1953 guib as President and Prime Min-
ister.86 The regency council deposed the child
King Fuad II, thus ending the, dynasty that
had ruled modern Egypt since 1805.
This transition of Egypt from a monarchy to
a republic did not materially change Anglo-
Egyptian relations, for the personalities in con-
trol of the government at Cairo
Dulles and were substantially the same. During
Stassen the spring of 1953 frequent clashes
visit Naguib between British troops in the Suez
zone and Egyptian terrorists kept
the situation unsettled. On May 6th talks be-
tween the British and Egyptians broke down in
view of the constant quarreling and the recurrent
disorders. And on May 9th the Foreign Ministers
of the Arab League countries endorsed the Egyp-
tian demands in respect to the Suez and voted
their support of Egypt's stand for complete Brit-
ish evacuation of the territory. When Secretary
Dulles and Harold Stassen were in Cairo on May
11th they met with General Naguib. The Egyp-
tian g >vernment revealed on the 16th that it had
promised Mr. Dulles that no drastic moves would
be taken in the Suez district until after the
Secretary had returned to the United States and
conferred with President Eisenhower. As Mr.
Dulles reported in his radio address of June 1,
1953: "I am convinced that there is nothing ir-
reconcilable between this international concern
[over the Suez dispute] and Egyptian sovereignty.
We asked, with some success, that
Britain there be further time to find a
and Egypt peaceful solution. . . ."87 How-
still far from ever, incidents continued and ten-
agreement sion between the Egyptians and the
on Suez British was not allayed by the
statement of General Sir Brian
Robertson, on July 19th, that Britain would
recognize full Egyptian sovereignty in the canal
sOLt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser, a career army officer credited with
directing the coup which forced the abdication of King Farouk, was
named Deputy Premier. Reports indicated that Gen. Naguib was
mainly a "front man" for Nasser and a clique of young army officers.
87U.S. Dept. of State Bulletin, XXvIII:831, June 15, 1953.zone when the British withdrew. All the British
asked was that they would be allowed to keep
a force of technicians in the zone to help main-
tain the canal and its services to world shipping.
The West was aroused by a report on August
17, 1953 that the Egyptians were proposing to
buy arms from the Soviet Union and Czecho-
slovakia.88 But since the Naguib
Talks government had just signed a
with British trade treaty with Turkey, it was
resumed by evident that Egypt was probably
Egyptians attempting to display its independ-
ence of both East and West and to
exercise its freedom to deal with either group as
it chose. On September 15 the Egyptian cabinet
charged that a foreign plot against the Naguib
government had been discovered, but the for-
eign power was not identified. Arrests of two
former premiers and eleven other aides of Farouk
were announced on the 21st and on October 1st
ex-Premier Ibraham Abdel Hadi was sentenced
to death for his alleged part in the threat to the
Naguib regime.89 Internal troubles characterized
the rest of the year. However, 1953 ended on a
note of hope when talks with the British were
resumed on December 30th.
Likewise, the situation in the Sudan looked
brighter for the Egyptians at this time. The
newly elected Sudanese parliament held its first
session in Khartoum on January 1,
Sudan 1954 and chose Ismail el Azhari, of
parliament the pro-Egyptian party, as Prime
holds Minister. On March 1st General
first session Naguib arrived in Khartoum to
1954 meet with British and Sudanese of-
ficials. His visit was seized upon by pro-Egyptian
elements to demonstrate in favor of annexation
of the Sudan to Egypt. Proponents of Sudanese
independence fought 'the pro-Egyptians. Before
order could be restored more than 30 persons,
including the British police commandant, were
killed and 117 wounded.90 General Naguib, on
his return to Cairo on' March 2nd blamed the
Brisish for the riots, but Anthony Eden replied
that the responsibility for the unrest in the Sudan
89The deal for arms fell through as did a projected plan in mid-
1954 for Egypt to buy arms from Spain.
89Former WAFD leader Fuad Serag el-Din was sentenced to 15
years in jail on Jan. 30, 1954.
90New York Times, Mar. 2, 1954.274
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