Word: iraqization
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...Iraq's new revolutionary government settled down to consolidate its rule, one of its first efforts was to erase the memory of the bloody regicide that brought it to power...
...Nasser insisted, is not belligerent. "When we nationalized the Suez Canal," he shouted, "imperialism and its leaders rose and said that Egypt would close the canal. But did we close it? We left the canal to be an instrument of good for us and humanity. When your brethren in Iraq rose to demolish tyranny and oppression, the imperialists said that Iraq would stop the flow of oil, but the free and honest leaders of Iraq announced that they would adhere to their international and trade agreements...
...Iraq revolution broke out," said Nasser blandly, "while I was in Yugoslavia." He pictured both Egypt and Tito's Yugoslavia as lands that had rescued themselves from "oppressive forces" that "wanted to colonize them"-but in such an ambiguous way that he could always tell the Russians that the only oppressors he had in mind in Yugoslavia's case were the old Austro-Hungarian empire or the Nazis...
...Cairo news agency went so far as to declare that 23-year-old King Feisal died of a heart attack after his uncle, Crown Prince Abdul Illah. slapped his face for wanting to surrender to the rebels. In Manhattan, Iraq's new delegate to the U.N. shrugged that the King's death was just one of those things. "Feisal," said he, "was very much liked, but unfortunately he was under the complete control of his uncle. The poor chap was young, with very little experience...
...general, most of the world seemed to regard the coup d'état in Iraq as a genuine national uprising, and to deplore the dispatch of British and American troops to the Middle East. But there were some sober second thoughts, and subtle shadings. Even in Gamal Abdel Nasser's world, the realization dawned that the Russians had talked big but stayed away. And here and there, a world usually divided arbitrarily into West, East and neutral reacted in much less predictable fashion. Items...