Dutiful Delegates
Photograph
Dutiful Delegates
1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 7/16 × 7 5/8 in. (24 × 19.3 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0271
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Nasser) 6/62 7) DUTIFUL DELEGATES: Nasser's audience was the 1,750 \ delegates to the National Congress of Popular Forces. Their job: \ to consider the Charter as a basis for a democratic/socialistic \ government. In the audience were diplomats and the former U.A.R. \ Vice president, Lieut.Col. Abdel Hamid Serraj, who had just escaped \ to Cairo from a Damascus prison. Serraj had been Nasser's man \ in Syria until the Syrian revolt. \ Credit: Rene Burri © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
