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...When Nasser got down to the Dertinent topic of what his revolution had accomplished inside his own country, he touched with unexpected frankness on his troubles in exploiting his victorious annexation of "the northern region of Syria," which was presumably a richer economy than Egypt's. Confessed Nasser: "The past five months of union have not achieved the degree of production we had hoped for. I did not acquaint myself with the budget of the Syrian region before proclaiming unity. It seems there was a deficit in Syria's budget. Syria's reserve had all been spent...
...roared "Ya Gamal!" (O Gamal!). At length, the huge square stilled, and the President and his honor guests from Iraq waited briefly, during a reading from the Koran: "Those who oppose truth will die angry, but we will conquer." Then, mopping the sweat off his face with a handkerchief, Nasser launched into his speech...
Arab nationalism, 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...
Lust for Blood. By far the most untrammeled passages in Nasser's speech were his attacks on Jordan's Hussein, the fearless young Hashemite monarch who had expelled the British from his country in 1957, but turned openly against Nasser when the Egyptian tried to drive him off his throne. "Hussein," said Nasser, "deviated and disavowed and deceived the people, and followed in the footsteps of his grandfather King Abdullah by inviting the British to occupy his country. Brothers, today there is treason, and another occupation, but it will end. The Arab homeland and people will eliminate...