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Rumor getting serious attention currently in the Middle East: that Gamal Abdel Nasser, driving for his Arab union, will next arrange for the Egyptian-run Gaza Strip to announce its independence as a nation. The strip's 300.000 Palestinians, mostly refugees from Israeli-held territory, would then vote themselves into his United Arab Republic. Such a "state" might be expected to attract the disruptive loyalty of the more than 500,000 other Palestinian refugees living in Jordan. Already the newly created Gaza local government council calls itself the Palestine Legislative Assembly, and the map of "Arab Palestine" behind...
...with studied casualness that he was going out for a tour of Syria's largest city (pop. nearly 500,000). He climbed into a black sedan driven by Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, the man he has picked for his proconsul in Syria-now known as the United Arab Republic's "Northern Region." Serraj drove him to the airport, where Nasser's private airplane waited.' Under cover of darkness and secrecy, the plane headed southwest past Israel's intervening airspace, and arrived safely back in Cairo...
Despite the somewhat ignominious departure maneuver, which promises to become habitual, Nasser lost no time in seeking out a rostrum in Cairo to sound the new glories of the U.A.R. and its leader. In Cairo's Republic Square he thundered: "Always the Arab peoples were able to conquer invaders whenever they joined and stood together in one army-as in Saladin...
...Federation. In significant contrast with Dictator Nasser's balcony-built merger, the Hashemite Kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan last week brought forth a new constitution conceived in careful wisdom and dedicated to the proposition that member nations of the new Arab Federation are best treated equals. By late April both countries will have held elections amounting to a referendum on their federation. Then Iraq's 22-year-old King Feisal, as chief of the federal state, will appoint a premier to name a federal cabinet, and the Arab Federation will be in business...
...keeper of Islam's holy places may not succeed in holding his own course between the dynamic forces struggling for the leadership of Arab unity in the Middle East...