EGYPT: Celebration

The sizzling streets of Cairo and Alexandria were charged with happiness and excitement as 23 million Egyptians took a long holiday last week to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Nasser's revolution, the first anniversary of the seizure of the Suez Canal. On a hundred triumphal arches banners proclaimed: "Egypt, Tomb of Aggressors." "Nasser, Hero of Peace." From radios and loudspeakers all over the great (pop. 2,100,506) city of Cairo, the Big Brotherly voice of Nasser could be heard everywhere.

In Alexandria scores of thousands rushed to see a new Soviet-delivered submarine. In Cairo...

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