Word: iraqization
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...minded Foreign Minister Charles Malik (dubbed "the good Malik" to distinguish him from his onetime U.N. colleague, Russia's Jacob Malik) planned Washington conferences with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Next month, to discuss military assistance, will come Crown Prince Abdul Illah, who held the throne of Iraq as regent for his nephew Feisal, has stayed on as young (21) Feisal's adviser. In April will appear the erring, independent son of Communism, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, on a visit that will doubtless cause repercussions as violent in the U.S. as in Moscow. This week...
...Oxford. How could this expert so ineptly misjudge at Suez? The answer may be that he was too long imbued with the technique and tradition that belonged to another time. It was a tradition that remembered fondly how Britain drew borders and created kingdoms for idle Hashemite Kings in Iraq and Jordan, or rolled tanks up to Farouk's palace in 1942 to force the King to accept a Premier of British choosing. Princes placed in office in such fashion can be as easily removed, to the public's indifference. But Nasser had not reached power that...
...Iraq, by the same act of sabotage, has lost 13 times as much revenue-$700,000 a day in oil royalties...
...natural Arab nations: 1) Maghreb in North Africa, 2) the land of the Nile Valley, 3) Arabia Deserta, including not only Saudi Arabia but Yemen and all the little trucial sheikdoms, 4) the Fertile Crescent, stretching from the Mediterranean at Lebanon to the Persian Gulf, and including Syria and Iraq in a unity of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys...
...Baghdad Suhrawardy had seen for himself how Nasser intrigued against Iraq; he was also angry at Nasser's flirtation with Russia, and his cosying up to Pakistan's No. 1 enemy, Nehru's India. Last week, when a New York Times reporter made the conventional assumption, in the form of a question, that all of Asia and Africa stood behind Nasser, forthright Hussein Suhrawardy compressed his reply-and his current opinion of Egypt-into one word: "Phooey...