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...road from Béit Meri and was irate at the rebels' continued holdout, tendered his resignation, but President Chamoun refused it. Puffing worriedly on a hubble-bubble water pipe, Solh told newsmen that he could have been butchered as was Iraq's Nuri asSaid "if the American forces had been 24 hours late." He went on: "The rebels, who had massed fresh forces and ammunition from Syria, were to launch a big attack shortly after the Iraqi coup. Had the U.S. not acted in time, the massacres would have dwarfed those of 1860* and would have been...
...wholly without opposition. Last week, after properly waiting until hundreds of notables, led by the Duke of Gloucester, had crowded into Queen's Chapel of the Savoy in London for a memorial service to Iraq's assassinated King Feisal II, Crown Prince Abdul Illah and Premier Nuri asSaid, Her Majesty's British Government officially recognized the new regime that had overthrown and murdered these friends of the West. Next day the U.S. did the same, and promptly sent Troubleshooter Robert Murphy off to Baghdad for talks...
...Abdul Illah, Hussein has become a victim of continuous dreams or horrifying delusions. There are stories of Hussein having fits of hysteria. He beats his side whenever he has these fits. Listen, Hussein, our people are happy, and not sad about the murder of Feisal, Abdul Illah and Nuri asSaid. No black flags will be flown when you meet the same fate...
Among Arab leaders, Iraq's late Nuri asSaid probably led all the rest in the bitterness of his public excoriations of Israel. But fate appears to have played a last weird trick on the murdered Iraqi strongman. Out of Jerusalem last week came a strange story: Nuri Pasha's only survivor may be a 16-year-old Jewish boy now living in an Israeli border kibbutz...
...latest count, Egypt had some 400 teacher-agitators in Kuwait, 1,000 in Saudi Arabia, 400 in Libya and 100 in Syria. Iraq's Premier Nuri asSaid, killed in the July 14 revolt, had thrown Egyptian teachers out of his country, but last week, after the revolution, Cairo announced that a new detachment of 300 would be sent to help out the now friendly Iraq government. For Egypt, which has more teachers than it can use (the University of Cairo turns out huge classes of B.A.s each year, and there are too few schools to provide posts...