The Collapse Of The Anti-British Riots

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First off, the last thing Nasser and the Free Officers needed after the coup was a resurgence of the Wafd or problems of any other parties such as the communists or Muslim Brotherhood. At certain points during the coup and later dealing with the British, the Muslim Brotherhood and communists worked in conjunction and were even partially represented with the RCC (Thornhill 905) primarily due to the resentment for the current regime. To solve this however the Free Officers had to play it careful, it started out by keeping Ali Maher as prime minister, who talked of how the Free Officers involvement would only be brief and elections would soon be reinstated. This gave the British the idea that order was being kept in Egypt and Maher was for the most part in control, because of this the British wouldn’t see as much of a need to storm into Egypt and risk inciting anti-British riots. …show more content…

This finally led to him being ousted along with the arrest of sixty other politicians (Thornhill 901). After which the Free Officers set to weaken the parties by issuing a statement on October 7th that all parties must give all funds to the government. This agitated the parties and led to failed counter-coup against the regime in January of 1953. The Free Officers then ordered the complete dismissal of all political parties and collection of remain funds the same month. As seen above the Free Officers would try to incite the opposing side to action and then dominate them once their intentions become clear, in this manner the Free Officers don’t immediately look like the violent force, giving them a more positive social appearance then if they had instantly dispensed with the political

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