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Naguib's assurance to women

General Mohammed Naguib, Commander-in-Chief of Egypt's armed forces, told feminist leader Madame Doria Shafilk on August 5, in Cairo, that he would welcome women in the services. He said he was in favour of an amendment of the military law to admit women in the armed forces to work in offices, serve as car drivers or even man anti-aircraft batteries. Madame Shafilk, who raised a battalion of women volunteers in the "liberation struggle" against British forces in the Suez Canal zone last winter, asked the Commander-in-Chief if he would break the chains of bondage and help Egyptian women to secure the franchise.

Gen. Naguib, father of three daughters, replied, "We must leave this question for the time-being until we win the purge battle throughout the country."

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