If
you have studied the news from Egypt you will have noticed that lately
they have stopped flinging abuse at me.
This not because anybody in the new government feels it is time
to stop kicking a man when he is down. At least two embassies,
including the United States, and rulers in the Middle East have requested
them to stop.
It is only a lull. But it will give me time, I think, to tell
exactly what did happen in Egypt before my abdication, and what is happening
now.
When
I was king, I kept silent. Today I release myself from my self-imposed
vows. Had I thought I could serve my son by enduring long in silence,
I would do so. But I do not now think this is possible. Indeed,
I speak for the sake of my children and my wife, who love me and have all
voluntarily followed me into exile. I speak, also for the sakes of
those loyal, good men who have died in my cause, and for those many more
behind the barbed wire in Egypt who are still waiting for death.
I know that my story as I write it will be banned from Egypt. Phrases
will be taken from it and distorted. But I know that whole copies will
get through somehow. Men will risk their lives to take them in. I
hope that, before they are slaughtered, my men in prison will know that
I pray for them.
I want them to know, too, that they do not walk from concentration
camp to execution yard, are not shot in the back and buried in nameless
graves in Egypt's sand without their true story ever being told, nor the
world ever permitted to glimpse what they fought for, and why they died.
Who
are the men behind Naguib? I will tell you.
They
are a secret politburo of the Muslim Brotherhood, using money supplied
by the Russian Embassy in Cairo. And that efficient coup d'état
which cost me my throne was not planned by Naguib in the candlelight of
his simple Army tent, but was worked out for him by a group of foreign
military advisers.
Why should the Russian Embassy want to get me off my throne? Because
they plan that Egypt shall soon become a second Korea, and good Egyptian,
British and American blood will be spilled to make a red carpet for Russian
tanks into the Middle East and Europe.
You
who fear the next war, make no mistake about it the next war is being fought
already. And I am one of its casualties.
To be continued |
