Zaglul and his colleagues were still identified in origins and social milieux with the groups of small propertied farmers in the Egyptian countryside. Their chances for organizing countrywide support were in 1918 better than those of any other group. As administrators their knowledge of, and influence upon, the Egyptian Civil Service, especially the lower echelons, could serve them well. As the secular moderate generation of Egyptian national leaders, the Zaghiul group was more readily acceptable to the Coptic minority than any of the more extremist nationalist or Pan-Islamic groups. it seemed the group most capable of achieving communal unity in Egypt. In fact, rich Coptic landowners from Upper Egypt who had similarly benefited from the war, as well as those among them who had a share in the expanding Egyptian financial and commercial interests, joined the group at the end of the war and later became leading members of the Wafd Party and its cabinets when in power. Wissa Wasef, George Khayyat. Makram Obayd, are only a few of the Coptic leaders who became prominent in the Wafd.