774.00/3–2554: Telegram
No. 1305
The Ambassador in Egypt (Caffery) to the
Department of State1
Cairo, March 25, 1954.
1167. Following lengthy meeting with Naguib presiding, RCC announced today following decisions:
- 1.
- Political parties will be permitted organize immediately.
- 2.
- RCC will not form political party.
- 3.
- No one will be deprived of political rights.
- 4.
- Constituent Assembly will be freely elected (no appointees).
- 5.
- RCC will turn over all powers to Constituent Assembly on July 24 and consider revolution ended. President of Republic will be elected by Assembly when it meets.
Caffery
- Repeated to London as telegram 386 and unnumbered to the Arab capitals, Tel Aviv, Tripoli, and Khartoum.↩