Whatever the undoubted earlier and continued provocations of Colonel Nasser's policies, to invite Egypt to abandon its only tenable line of defence against attack from the east, and Israel to take up positions more than 100 miles inside the Egyptian border, was the act of a partisan rather than a policeman.

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Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser plotted his coup over cardamom-scented coffee at the Riche.

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Egypt was under the rule of a monarchy until Colonel Gamal Abdul Nasser led a military coup to topple the monarchy.

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