Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American "indifference to the fate of the Arab peoples" was responsible for the recent Communist penetration into oil-rich Iraq, Bartley Crum, a member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in Palestine in 1947, told a Liberal Union forum last night...
...only final solution to the crises facing the Middle East today, Crum continued, is a peace between Israel and her Arab neighbors. Such a peace would stabilize the area, halt the spread of Communism, and end the "state of feudalism" which exists in many Arab nations...
...first glance negligent. In fact, it is the only policy open to the West. For even if Washington and London trusted Nasser enough to back him in his fight against Kassem, Western support would only further discredit Nasser in Iraqi eyes-and in the eyes of the whole Arab world. And any attempt that the West might make to bring direct pressure to bear on Kassem could only serve to drive him finally and utterly into the arms of the Communists...
...long sought in Middle Eastern affairs. But with that new status, Moscow has also acquired new problems. If the U.S.S.R. decides to push ahead with an attempt to establish an undisguised People's Democracy in Iraq, the Soviets must assume that they will alienate all other Arab nations, inherit the scapegoat position of "imperialist oppressors" that the Western powers have long occupied in Middle Eastern minds...
...they ponder these pros and cons, Russia's cold-war planners must also be acutely aware of another complicating factor. Abdul Karim Kassem, now the Communists' most useful front man in the Arab world, was once a most useful servant of Nuri asSaid. And so long as Kassem, lifelong conspirator and dissembler, keeps any of the keys of power in Iraq, there is always the chance that he may yet teach Russia a lesson that the West has learned to its sorrow-the lesson that events in the Middle East have their own momentum...