Chapter 677 Suppression of the Free Officers’ Organization

Walking out of General Mountbatten’s headquarters, Allen Wilson immediately contacted the Embassy in Egypt by means of the telegraph room here, and Grace, who had been staying in Egypt, was again informed of Allen Wilson’s movements after the lapse of a month.

After translating the telegram, he left the embassy in Cairo and traveled downriver to meet with King Farouk I of Egypt to express Britain’s support for cleaning house for the Egyptian royal family.

Once this was done, Grace went straight into the middle of the British base in Alexandria harbor. On the one hand, it was a way to watch the fire from the other side of the river, and on the other hand, it was also a way to be able to keep in touch with Cyprus at all times.

At the critical moment of the future political direction of Egypt, Alan Wilson is not indifferent, on the contrary, he is now busy. On the contrary, he is now very busy. He is communicating with the Greek hierarchy on the island of Cyprus.

Cyprus is also a colony, except that the island’s main population is Greek. Since it is a colony, at this point in time, when the British Empire is going downhill, the problems encountered by other colonies, Cyprus naturally also has.

Cyprus is of course pursuing independence, although so far it has not paid off with military action. But it can’t be ignored that the Greeks on the island are indeed very unhappy with their own colonial positioning.

Alan Wilson remembers Cyprus, mainly because Cyprus later gave rise to a sovereignty dispute between Greece and Turkey.

There is no mistaking it, and it certainly has something to do with Britain, which traditionally tends to merge colonies and has contributed greatly to the unification of nations around the world, but also has a tendency to merge out colonies with different ethnic presences in one country.

In general, although the country will cause ethnic conflicts, but for the sake of more land are tolerated. The ones that can’t stand it, there’s the partition of India and Pakistan. Or like the example of Malaysia kicking Singapore out.

Later on, Cyprus caused Greece and Turkey to fight over it, again with the UK. The root cause was that when the Greeks went for independence, Britain propped up the Turks, causing Greece and Turkey to fight over Cyprus.

In addition to this, long before World War II, on Greek soil, there was a growing popular clamor for Cyprus to be removed from British rule and returned to Greece. They secretly encouraged the Cypriot Greeks to pursue the path of a combination of democratic marches and armed insurrection.

After the end of World War II, the Cyprus problem surfaced again, so was it possible to return Cyprus to Greece. The answer was no, because Turkey’s population and power was greater than Greece’s, and the main force blocking the Soviet Union’s southward march came from Turkey, not Greece.

So the free world can’t hurt Turkey as a meat shield, and it’s not just Britain that thinks so, the US supports Britain’s continued occupation of Cyprus. To the north of Turkey was the Soviet Union, to the north of Greece was Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Both Turkey and Greece were bulwarks against the Soviet Union moving south. And comparing the strengths of Turkey and Greece, Turkey undoubtedly made a greater contribution.

Now that there are Turkish troops on Greek soil, what can we do from Britain’s point of view? Just take it one day at a time!

Diligent social public instrument, in his father-in-law’s territory began to meet with the leaders of the two communities, but also with a sincere attitude, the United Kingdom does not want to India and Pakistan after the partition of the history of antagonism repeat. But it is not for Britain to say, once the nationalist ideas of Greece and Turkey enter Cyprus, it may be difficult to avoid open confrontation.

Mediating the national question, Alan Wilson has gone from being a fledgling to a more professional person. It could be said that he had been doing this kind of work all the way through the trip, not to say that he was happy about it, but he had certainly become somewhat accustomed to it.

While he continued to do his old job in Cyprus, King Farouk I of Egypt, after receiving verbal assurances of support from Britain, was finally going to make a move against the Free Officers Organization, the rebels.

Farouk I, at the Cape Town Palace, ordered the commander of the palace guards to eliminate the Israeli-supported Free Officers Organization, to solve the hidden problems in the country, and to maintain Egypt’s leadership in the Arab world. The operation to eradicate the Free Officers Organization has officially begun!

At the same time, the military and political governors of all parts of Egypt received a telegram from Farouk I. At once, the whole of Egypt was mobilized and engaged in the battle to eliminate Israel’s agents, and operations to capture members of the Free Officers’ Organization were carried out almost simultaneously in all parts of Egypt.

The Egyptian military and political officials loyal to Farouk I were already worried about the development of the Free Officers Organization. Deep down inside they had not been disappointed with the king, but today they waited for the warrant to act.

Led by royal spies, a procession received from Farouk I swooped down on the residences of the members of the Free Officers’ Organization, and everything seemed to be in order.

But in Cairo, the Free Officers Organization, which had been preparing to overthrow Farouk I, immediately sensed the danger, and before it was too late, Nasser reacted even more quickly, evading the search and immediately contacting the teams that were already poised to launch the coup d’état.

By this time, the situation in Cairo was critical. Much of Cairo was out of control and surrounded by the king’s forces. The armed forces supporting the royal family were far outnumbered by Nasser’s armed forces.

Nasser was entrusted with the task of reorganizing the situation with extraordinary energy.

Nasser, who had fought in the First Middle East War and had been honored with the title of “Tiger of Faluga,” first thought about how to use the artillery. He envisioned a plan to pound the rebel ranks with artillery fire. At that time, there were artillery and ammunition in the vicinity of Cairo, while forty cannons were lying idle in the Jiao Tuo barracks northwest of Cairo.

Nasser immediately assigned Mulla, the captain of the cavalry, with two hundred men, to take the cannons under control.

The well-equipped party of the king, led by the spies, had taken control of the principal streets of Cairo. Thinking that they would have no difficulty in accomplishing their purpose in this way, they, amidst jubilant cheering, raised their banners and made a search for the organization of free officers who had fled everywhere.

Nasser, having taken control of this artillery, met them with cannon fire. These groups, who thought it was just an arrest, were totally unprepared for such a scene, and they were caught off guard by the artillery fire and had to return fire with their rifles. After leaving two hundred bodies behind, they fled in a hurry, dragging their wounded with them.

At this point, another group of 500 men rushed towards Nasser’s artillery position, and Nasser mercilessly bombarded the rebels, who quickly dispersed. The battle lasted just over an hour and was over.

These troops of the Old Kingdom were unbeatable, but were outnumbered, for Farouk I. had received verbal assurances of confidence from England, and gave orders in the midst of telegrams that made the military governors of Cairo feel confident as well.

Although the moment can not take Nasser, but finally the king’s army is still very advantageous, the most important thing is that Nasser can only contact the same in Cairo, the members of the Free Officers Organization, these members of the middle and lower officers mainly, who let Nasser is only a lieutenant colonel it.

The immediate problem before Nasser was that he had guaranteed his own safety. But he could not control the radio station, Nasser listened to the radio broadcast, is playing Farouk I’s warrant, said that the Free Officers Organization is Israel to support the destabilization of subversive organizations in Egypt.

But it was ascertained that most of the members of the Free Officers Organization, were not aware of the real plot of this organization, but were deluded, and they were not aware that their so-called patriotic actions were actually harmful to Egypt as a whole.

Farouk I stated that for the vast majority of the members of this organization, he himself would focus on education. It is hoped that these patriotic officers will continue to contribute to the Arab world led by the Kingdom of Egypt.

This broadcast spread through the streets of Cairo and Nasser knew it was over when he heard it. The radio broadcasting out such a speech by Farouk I would be fatal to the current organization of free officers.

Once the citizens of Cairo believed the king’s speech, it was clear where the situation was headed, and even the enthusiasm for fighting within the Free Officers’ organization would be dismantled. Nasser knew immediately that this was not the place to stay.

A few aides nearby believed Nasser and expressed their willingness to fight to the end for a better Egypt; Nasser was touched, but not convinced, and immediately made plans to flee.

Farouk I’s inversion of the truth made Nasser furious, but he knew that this was the difference between people being able to speak through radio broadcasts and him not having an outlet for his voice.

He believed and could trust his partners to fight, but could not change the opinion of the citizens of Cairo who heard the broadcast.

Fleeing Cairo and waiting to rise again was a realistic option, but of course the fighting continued.

The army in support of the king also mobilized armored vehicles to enter downtown Cairo, and the streets that the armored vehicles traveled through were cheered by the citizens of Cairo, and there were quite a few people cheering.

The addition of the armored vehicles also made the battle much more intense, bursts of gunfire rang out in Cairo, accompanied by the rain of gunfire from the attacking teams, the blood and flesh of both sides of the warring parties flew up.

Ta-da-da-da-da-da – the machine guns on the high towers fired a frantic, dense rain of bullets at the Egyptian soldiers exposed in the open, strafing the equally Egyptian soldiers, and one by one they were instantly riddled with bullet holes and swept to the ground.

Everywhere there were groans of pain, violent roars, and heavy gunfire, and the flying bullets made no place safe.

Bit by bit the time passed and the odds were machine obvious, Nasser decided to leave before the siege was even in sight, in fact he was ready to do so as early as the radio broadcast of Farouk I’s speech.

How exactly the nervous looking Nasser escaped, no one knows, but having fled Cairo Nasser had a great sense that the world was too big for him to live in, where could he go?