In his book “Al-Haraka Al-Islamiya fee Misr—Al-Waqi’ wa Al-Tahadiyat [The Islamic Movement in Egypt—Reality and Challenges], Saleh Al-Wardani writes that the Muslim Brotherhood sent a memo to the palace pledging their allegiance to King Fouad I in 1933. “Perhaps the stands adopted by Banna after the end of the world war [WWI] and his founding of the secret [military] division—which were purely political stands—were the direct reason for his assassination in 1949.