Word: arabization
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...revolutionary regime seems solidly in the saddle but not yet shaken down. Last week the mask of sweet reasonableness toward the West appeared to slip a bit. Baghdad censors permitted the newspaper Al-Yakdha to boast: "We have no reason not to consider ourselves part of the United Arab Republic." The Baghdad radio announced that 111 prisoners (39 of them army officers) would shortly be tried by military courts for past crimes against the state. At the U.N., the new Iraqi delegate, Hashim Jawad, took his line from Egypt's shrewd Delegate Omar Loutfi by calling U.S. troops...
...arrived in Cairo to find not a single representative of the Egyptian government at the airport to meet him. Nasser pointedly snubbed him for 24 hours, telling a visiting Japanese politician: "Frankly speaking, I wonder whether I should see Murphy at all, because I feel Murphy cannot understand the Arab mentality...
...General Amer was absent on a flying visit to Saudi Arabia where he dined with King Saud, who six months ago was being blasted by Radio Cairo for having "plotted" the assassination of Nasser. Now the Cairo spokesmen cooed that Amer's visit was aimed at "purifying the Arab horizon...
...this brotherly, pan-Arab back-slapping made it clear that Nasser was suggesting to the other Mideast states that they join in one big family dominated, naturally, by Nasser and Egypt. If Iraqis in the new Cabinet longed to keep oil royalties inside their own borders, they had to be mindful of the Baghdad street mobs that cheer Nasser's photograph, and absorb the lies and fury of Radio Cairo...
Besides, Nasser offers another form of membership in his club, not so binding as Syria's merger with Egypt in the United Arab Republic, which has not worked well, as even Nasser admits. Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and eventually Jordan might be persuaded to join a looser association called the United Arab States, which now links the U.A.R. with the feudal Imam of Yemen, a ruler whose primitivism makes the sheiks of Saudi Arabia appear enlightened democrats by comparison.* By joining the U.A.S., other Arab rulers might hope to keep some internal autonomy and some hold on their fabulous...