Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Telephones jingled in five Baghdad embassies. A procession of limousines, national flags aflutter from their fenders, drove up outside Iraq's yellow brick Foreign Ministry. One by one, the ambassadors of Britain, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan marched inside to receive a note from Iraq's Foreign Minister Hashim Jawad. When they had left, the U.S.'s gangling Ambassador John Jernegan was ushered in and got the same word verbally. Later, at a press conference to which Western correspondents were not invited, Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, Iraq's strongman, announced publicly what the ambassadors had been told...
Brother screamed at Arab brother last week in a way that suggested that Arab brotherhood is a sometime thing. In Cairo, President Nasser's marchers swung dead rats and dogs from mock gallows to show their hate for Premier Kassem and his Iraqi Communist allies. In Baghdad, Kassem supporters plastered the city with portraits of President Nasser's grinning countenance superimposed on pictures of donkeys, hyenas and dancing girls...
Fast as the Communists could pass the ammunition, Radio Baghdad fired back that Nasser was the honorary President of the Egyptian Freemasons' lodge and hence, naturally enough, a partner of Zionism. Who was to blame for the unsuccessful Mosul uprising? "The blood of Mosul's free men will haunt you, Gamal," railed the Baghdad announcer. Taunted Radio Cairo: "Iraqis now call their government 'the rule of the Red butcher...
Both Camps. For Khrushchev now to cut off his promised aid for Nasser's Aswan High Dam would be to show all Asia and Africa that Soviet aid is in fact tied with strings. Though the Communists were now in control of Baghdad's streets, did they dare bid for full control of Iraq? If they did, could they avoid a new revolutionary situation, in which powerful Arabic emotions would be turned against them? Dare they risk the West's mistake of opposing Nasser in such a way as to strengthen...
British informants said Iraq authorities have given assurance that Britain will not be ejected immediately from its Habbaniyah air base west of Baghdad. The British hope to negotiate an agreement keeping the base intact and giving them rights to fly over the oil fields...