Word: iraqization
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...came to the conclusion that the country was going to the dogs ... I said to the President: 'Are you going to act? If you do not, which Heaven forbid, we [the armed forces] shall force a change.' " Mirza waited for the right moment, hoping to prevent "another Iraq." A police battle with Moslem League demonstrators provided "the perfect opportunity" for surrounding the capital with troops. On the chosen day Mirza wrote out his proclamation dissolving political parties and imposing martial law, had it typed under guard. Assured that the troops were in position, Mirza issued his orders...
...program-defense reorganization, foreign aid, and reciprocal trade-through a reluctant Congress. He stood staunchly behind the attempts of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson to bring sanity into the farm-subsidy program when many a Republican Congressman was yelping for Benson's scalp. After the revolution in Iraq last July, it took President Eisenhower only twelve hours to have U.S. Marines landing in Lebanon -and not even from Democratic liberals has there been any criticism that his stand on Quemoy is too weak...
...presumably on guard against the "corruption" and "imperialist aggressors" the Baghdad radio so ceaselessly attacks. Barefoot young people rove the banks of the Tigris, singing patriotic songs and shouting: "Nasser, Nasser." Every wall and shopwindow in town bears the image of the idol of the Nile-or that of Iraq's own Revolutionary Chief Karim Kassem...
Glitter Gone. The new regime is still wreaking its vengeance on the old. Last week the government prosecutor demanded the head of U.S.-educated ex-Premier Fadhil Jamali. Jamali's chief crime: taking Iraq into the Baghdad Pact. Cried the prosecutor: "God ordained that we should have one head left out of those destroyed at the hands of the people. God be praised for these blessed hours in which the enemy of the people stands in the prisoner's dock before the People's Court...
...share Nasser's balcony, returned promising quick Arab unity through union with Nasser's U.A.R., seemed to be challenging Kassem's leadership. Touring the country making rabble-rousing speeches, Aref promised to strip landlords of their vast holdings, foreigners of more of treir oil profits. But Iraq's big Kurdish minority fear they might be submerged altogether in a pan-Arab nation. Minority groups began to stage counterdemonstrations against the unionists in the midst of Aref's meetings. Word spread that Prime Minister Kassem favored "gradualism" in relations with the U.A.R...