Naguib's Memoirs, Published in Lebanon, Assail Nasser; CIA Linked in Revelations
By MOSHE RON
Jewish News Special
Israel Correspondent
TEL AVIV—The Lebanese
weekly El Hawadir has be-
gun the publication of the
memoirs of former Egyptian
President General Moham-
med Naguib, who together
with the late Cranial Abdel
Nasser carried out the re-
volution of Egyptian officers
in 1952. Two years later he
was removed by Nasser and
since then he has been un-
der house arrest outside
Cairo with a strong guard
posted outside his home.
During that time, Naguib's
wife died and his son was
murdered in West Germany,
under mysterious circum-
stances.
Now, 19 years after his
house arrest, Naguib has
been set free by President
Sadat. He has started reveal.
ing secrets which will cer-
tainly not contribute any hon-
or to Nasser's memory. After
coming to power, Sadat be-
gan to diminish Gamal Abdel
Nasser's glory and, therefore,
he permitted the publication
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of Naguib's memoirs in the
Lebanese weekly. The pub-
lication was fostered by
Sadat partisans who had to
emigrate from Egypt during
Nasser's rule and who sought
revenge.
The editor of the Egyptian
daily El Ghoumhouria,
Salim El Lauzi, a friend of
Sadat, edited the memoirs for
18,000 pounds sterling and
sold them to several newspa-
pers abroad, thus making a
profitable deal.
The memoirs are concern-
ed with the eve of the offi-
cers' revolution against King
Farouk, the war in Palestine
in 1948, and Naguib's two
years' rule.
Under special attack in his
memoirs is the editor of El
A h r a m, Hassanein Heikal,
who is accused of receiving
money from King Farouk's
propaganda bureau, as well
as from the American CIA.
He takes revenge for the fact
that Heikal was instrumental
in removing him from his of-
fice 19 years ago. The mem-
oirs are in the form of talks
with Naguib. When Lauzi
asked him whether he in-
tended damaging Nasser's
image by his memoirs, he
denied it. "I have no grudge
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Sadat supported many of
General Naguib's proposals
to introduce a democratic
regime, to allow the activities
of political parties, etc. When
it became known that Naguib
planned to write his mem-
oirs, President Sadat's par-
tisans often visited him in
order to assure that Sadat
would appear in them in a
good light, in contrast to
Nasser.
It is anyone's guess how
Nasser's old colleagues will
react to these memoirs. Colo-
nel Qaddafi of Libya has al-
ready criticized them in an
interview with the daily El
Anwar, appearing in Beirut,
as well as President Sadat
for allowing the publication
GAMAL ABDEL NASSER of the memoirs. He said the
publication was organized by
truth." He praises the re-
people who wished to da-
forms which have been car-
ried out by President Sadat.
It has become known that
MOHAMMED NAGUIB
Sadat and Naguib have been
against Nasser," Naguib re- on good relations for several
plied. "I only write the years. Since the revolution,
mage the image of Abdel
Nasser, arguing that it is not
right to attack a man who
is dead and unable to defend
himself in the charges level-
led against him.
The Union of Nasserist
Forces in Beirut has publish-
ed an announcement in the
Lebanese press against Gen-
eral Naguib. It accuses Na-
guib of intending to damage
the prestige of the great
leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser,
and that the publication of
the memoirs was fostered by
the American CIA.
It is no secret that F
dent Sadat is trying to wedK-
en the Nasser cult in Egypt
and that he will be in favor
of the memoirs of General
Naguib, which will reveal
many secrets about Nasser
and his regime.
MR. & MRS. PHILIP OZROVITZ
AND CHILDREN
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Daily Forward Seeks New
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lems of all newspapers, and
then some."
(Copyright 1973, JTA, Inc.)
In the Forward's heyday in
The Forward, oldest Yid- 1924, circulation reached a
dish daily newspaper in this peak of 220,000. Readership
country, will move to mid- declined in the ensuing years,
town Manhattan this fall, and now Weber says circula-
after 75 years on New York's tion is aproximately 60,000.
Lower East Side.
This figure, however, repre-
Joining the Forward in its sents an increase over recent
new headquarters will be the years due to the closing of
Workmen's Circle and the the Day-Morning Journal,
Folksbine Playhouse, oldest and the revival of interest in
Yiddish theater in New York. "Yiddishkeit."
Both organizations are pres-
Although readership never
ently tenants in the Forward paid for itself, as the For-
Building at 175 E. Broadway. ward's circulation declined
way.
so did the advertising rev-
The Workmen's Circle is enues, explained Weber.
leasing (with an option to Puffing one of his frequent
purchase) the new offices at cigarettes, Weber glanced
49-51 E. 33rd St.
around his office which is
The Folksbine Playhouse decorated with personal sou-
will perform in temporary venirs of meetings with fam-
headquarters for the 1973-74 ous Jewish leaders and then
season and will become occu- expressed unqualified optim-
pants of the six-story build- ism about the Forward's fi-
ing, formerly occupied by nancial future.
Harper and Row, publishers,
The most hopeful sign of
in 1975.
increasing the paper's adver-
Still an institutional and tising revenues, noted Weber,
architectural landmark, the is the recent formation of the
Forward Building looks strik- Committee for the Support
ingly dignified amid East of the Jewish Press, based in
Broadway's clutter of small Israel, with Israeli Finance
neighborhood stores and ko- Minister Pinhas Sapir as
sher restaurants. Some mem- national chairman. "T h e
bers of the Jewish commu- committee is aware of the
nity, particularly those who tremendous catastrophe to
have lived on the Lower East Jewish life that would result
Side all their lives, feel that if papers like the Jewish
the Forward's imminent de- Daily Forward were forced
parture marks the end of an to close, and it is urging Is-
era which began with the raeli corporations to make
great influx of Jewish immi- sure part of their advertising
grants around the turn of the dollar goes to the Jewish
century. Today the Lower press," explained Weber.
East Side is an ethnic mix-
Weber anticipates the
ture of Jews, Blacks and His- move uptown will mark the
panic people.
beginning of a new financial
Simon Weber, editor-in- era, and with this an exten-
chief of the Forward, says sion of the Forward's reach
that the move has been dic- into the Jewish community.
tated purely by "financial
straits."
As owners of the Forward
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annual liability of $100,000
extend best wishes for
because much of the space is
underutilized, according to
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Weber.
to
all our friends and
Losing money on the build-
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ing is not the only problem
which two years ago prompt-
ed the Forward Association s
board of directors to seri-
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nevertheless somewhat sa-
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in a different context might
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