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Last week's revolutions in both troubled nations had left real power where it always had been: with the bigger battalions. In Cairo—city of mosques, millionaires' clubs and slums—power lay with the army; in Teheran it lay with the mob. Yet neither group was strong enough to rule alone. To give Egypt enduring government, the army needed popular support. Iran's mob, the power behind Mossadegh, needed even more urgently the support of the Iranian army. To fuse and discipline army and mob was a task for no one less than another Kemal Ata-türk, whose strong rule made Turkey modern and democratic in one generation. No such towering figure has yet appeared in Egypt or Iran.
*He married and divorced raven-haired Empress Fawzia, Farouk's beautiful younger sister. She is now married to Ismail Shirene Bey. Farouk's attempt to make his brother-in-law War Minister was the final spark that set off last week's army revolt.