"Unity of the Nile Valley"joining the Sudan to Egypthas been the Egyptian version of "Remember the Maine" and "Fifty-four Forty or Fight." For half a century, no clever Egyptian politician would be caught in the open before a crowd without echoing this familiar vote-catching cry. One day last week, Egypt's strong man of three months, General Mohammed Naguib, who likes to call himself a simple soldier, scratched pen on paper, and the issue and the cry vanished. Instead of insisting on sole control of the Sudan, Naguib agreed to let the Sudanese themselves, operating under a new constitution, decide...
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