Word: iraqization
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Throughout his long life, in which he had served 14 times as Premier and for 27 years as Iraq's strongman, Nuri had lived both dangerously and adroitly. "The man," he insisted, "has not been born who can assassinate me." He knew he was hated by many, regarded as a "British stooge" in the kingdom set up by the British...
...national security." Nuri let the powerful sheiks get richer and richer, but in recent years had seen to it that 70% of the vast oil royalties (some $300 million a year) went to the well-conceived dams and construction programs of the national Development Board. In time, Iraq's common man stood to gain more than the impoverished fellahin of Nasser's Egypt. But the cry of independence and Arab unity was irresistible...
Within hours after proclaiming martial law, buses were running as usual in Baghdad, and shops were open. So far as any outsider could tell, many Iraqis welcomed the coup and almost all accepted it. Yet it was only a handful of plotters who changed the history of Iraq. Later intelligence suggests that they acted earlier than they had intended, worried by Nuri's dispatch of one of the crucial colonels to Jordan...
...government announced that it honored its contract with the Iraq Petroleum Co. (predominantly British, French and American), though it was also interested in "modifying" the fifty-fifty contract by negotiation-as Nuri had been too. The new government proclaimed its withdrawal from the Arab Union with Jordan and signed a treaty of mutual defense with Nasser, but then astonished everyone by asserting, in the words of Hashim Jawad, its new delegate to the U.N., that "Iraq has never renounced the Baghdad Pact. It has never been considered." And he added: "Our friendship to the United States is still the same...
...Sole Purpose . . ." At the start, Henry Cabot Lodge was painfully on the defensive. He began with a bit of dramatics, which, as things turned out, proved unfortunate, by reporting the murder of Iraq's former Prime Minister and U.N. Delegate Fadhil Jamali. "Only a few weeks ago he was here with us. We heard his voice. We rejoiced in his humor. Now we learn that he was not only murdered but that his body was actually dragged through the streets of Baghdad."* Then, doggedly, but with difficulty. Lodge tried to get around the touchy point that...