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Naguib's 12-Day
Eclipse
Is Over
CAIRO, Tues.--Egypt's
political leaders are back
where they were 12 days
ago, with another crisis
in relations between Gen
eral Naguib and the Rev
olution Council apparent
ly averted.
Last night General
Naguib became Prime
Minister and chairman of
the Revolution Council
once more, as well as
President of Egypt.
The official announcement said
that he had been granted sup
reme power.
Lieut.-Col. Nasser, who dis
placed Naguib as Prime Minis
ter on February 25, went back
last night to his old position of
deputy-Premier.
Rival Claims
The sudden reversion follow
ed a day of non-stop conferences
between General Naguib and his
legal advisers, Col. Nasser and
the Revolution Command
Council, and civilian Cabinet
Ministers.
They tried in vain to define the
authority of the President- and
the Revolution Council, both of
which claimed to represent sov
ereign power.
The return to the position up
to February 24 was announced
in a statement issued by the Re
volution Command Council and
the Cabinet of the Joint Con
gress under-General Naguib.
The statement said: "Decisions
announced by the Revolution
Command -Council on March 5
concerning elections to a Con
stituent Assembly and a return
to political life are to be ad
hered to. -
"The curtain falls on the re
cent crisis."
Settled
All differences between Naguib
and his colleagues had been
settled, the statement said.
" It called on the people to "unite
in the face of powerful enemies."
Only two days ago Col. Nas
ser, who is 36, was appointed
Military Governor of Egypt
with supreme control of internal
security-a post previously held
by General Naguib.
The announcement last night
did not make clear who holds
the position nbw. '
Wing-Commander Gamal
Salem, who became deputy
chief of the Revolution Coun
cil, goes back to his old post as
Minister for Communications
and Dr. Abdel Guelil el Emary,
who was Deputy-Prime Minis
ter, returns to the Ministry of
Finance.
General Naguib obviously has
even- greater power than he
gained from the coup in which
he overthrew King Farouk in
July, 1952.-Reuters.
U.K. Minister
Fears More
Sudan Unrest
LONDON, Tues.-The British
Minister of State for Foreign
Affairs (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd),
who returned .today by air from
an official visit to Khartoum,
said that he thought there were
"considerable possibilities of
further trouble in the Sudan."
He hoped the postponed ofti
cial opening of the Sudan Par
liament would pass off peace
fully.
The demonstrations which led
to the rioting and forced post
ponement on February 1 had
begun peacefully and good
humouredly, he said.
Mr. Lloyd said that nobody in
,the Sudan accepted General
N'aguib's sulbsequent broadcast
allegation from f~airo radio that
the British were to blame for
the Khartoum disturbances-"it
was so obviously untrue."
Describing the Sudan situation
as "still anxious"-with a lack
of confidence between the pre
sent Council of Ministers and
officials-Mir. Lloyd called for
tolerance and conisideration on
both sides ini the Sudan rather
than "provbcative acts."
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