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...jubilant delegations dashed between Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo last week, the Arab world was awash with joy. Crowds swarmed in the streets chanting the slogan, "Unity. Freedom, Socialism!" In Cairo and Damascus, mobs shouted. "Nasser! Nasser! Union tomorrow!" Iraq's Deputy Premier Ali Saleh Saadi cried. "The Arab world will now certainly unite. This is an old aspiration. What is new is that it has now become possible...
Double Path. The urge to merge brought Syrian and Iraqi leaders flying to Cairo for 15 hours of talks with Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the chief beneficiary of the downfall of anti-Nasser regimes in Iraq and Syria. But Nasser had contributed little to the victories that were actually won in both countries by a coalition of Nasserite army officers and politicians of the Baath (Renaissance) Party, which has long promoted the ideal of Wahadi Arabiya (Arab oneness...
...planned union that indicated compromises were being made by both sides. If accepted by individual plebiscites, the union would create a single Arab state of 39 million people with an area as flat as Texas and more than twice its size, and an economy based on the oil of Iraq, the agriculture of Syria, and the industry and cotton of Egypt. The agreement calls for a single political head (almost certain to be Nasser) and a central parliament based on population, which would give Egypt a two-thirds majority...
...regime survived three major and countless minor conspiracies, but once Iraq rebelled against Dictator Kassem in the name of Arab unity, the Syrian, regime was doomed. Six Cabinet ministers re signed discreetly, and when members of the Baath (Renaissance) party were asked to replace them, they refused. Desperate President Koudsi eagerly offered to unite Syria with the new revolutionary government of Iraq but received no official reply from Baghdad. Schools were closed to prevent student demonstrations against the government, and tanks and armored cars patrolled the streets of Damascus...
Damascus radio went on the air proclaiming the Baathist slogans of "Unity, Freedom, Socialism!" A jubilant Syrian army officer at a border post said. ''We want unity, not with Nasser, but with all Arabs." As in Iraq, the Syrian National Council of the Revolutionary Command insisted on anonymity. The new 20-man Cabinet has only two military men, and the Baath party is strongly represented. New Premier Salah El-Bitar, 45, is a former Syrian Foreign Minister and a Baathist with strong sympathies toward Arab unity. A tall, hulking Damascene with dark, brooding eyes and brilliantined hair...