ABSTRACT
Intervention of armies in the politics of the Third World or underdeveloped countries has become as common as the regular parliamentary elections in Western Europe and no longer raises curiosity among researchers or observers as it used to some decades ago. In the economic field the military regime showed some initial success as in its selling of the accumulated cotton and the restoration of a surplus in the country’s balance of payments. A pragmatic foreign policy adopted by the regime resulted in the expansion of Sudan’s relations and the flow of funds from different quarters of the world. The ‘constitutional reforms’ introduced by the regime in 1962–64 took too long to mature and were a little more than a token gesture of popular representation. The regime continued to govern without a constitution until its last hour. In October 1964 the regime of the Generals was overthrown by a popular uprising.
