Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sputtering with rage, Baghdad's well-heeled Communist newspaper, Ittihad al-Shaab (Unity of the People), for the first time openly criticized Kassem himself: "The release of these persons adds to the dangers threatening the republic. The amnesty decision does not respond to the urgent necessities dictated by the interests of the masses." But the deed was done...
There were other Communist setbacks too. An army unit now guards the studios of Radio Baghdad; when Communists tried to organize a "local policing committee" to monitor radio broadcasts, the army commander broke up the meeting. In the countryside, Communists tried to take over Kassem's land-reform scheme through the recently formed National Federation of Peasants' Associations. Fifty farmers decided to take their complaints to the Premier himself, marched into Baghdad carrying a large portrait of Kassem and a long list of anti-Communist complaints, including the fact that the Communist president of the National Federation...
Majali was Hussein's Premier for four days in 1955. He tried to lead Jordan into the ill-fated Baghdad Pact with the West, was forced from office in the rioting that followed. This time he promised: no foreign military pacts...
They recognize that Iraq has been sliding steadily toward Communism. They recall that Kassem's revolution began not only with the murder of the King but with the burning of Baghdad's British embassy. But they also realize that, so far, Kassem's government has honored its contracts with the British-run Iraq Petroleum Co., in order to keep Iraq's $230 million-a-year oil royalties...
...Baghdad, the Ministry of Health decided to requisition the American Seventh-day Adventist hospital because it had been "a source of danger, suspicion and distrust." It will be confiscated and restaffed with Soviet doctors arriving late this month from Moscow...