Word: bakdash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third of Syria's wool exports (ten times last year's amount) and more than half of the cotton crop will go this year to the Soviet bloc. Although Syrian Communist Boss Khaled Bakdash fled to Moscow when the union was proclaimed, the Communist newspaper Al Noor still publishes the Red line. And Damascus Radio echoes it. Sample broadcast about Lebanon: "The U.S. has taken off the fancy dress hiding her real identity as a slippery snake trying to emit poison, suck blood and eat human flesh...
...impose a single party and choose its leader, to extirpate other parties-were clearly designed to allow Nasser to crack down on Syrian Communists as hard as he has on his own. Already Nasser's house-cleaning was under way. Syria's Communist Party Chief Khaled Bakdash took one look at the proposed constitution and left by plane with his family for Moscow. Significantly, Moscow, which has clarioned all available news of its Egyptian and Syrian friends for months, has had nothing to say about the Egypt-Syria merger...
...Union such as he has formed in Egypt. Kuwatly and other nationalists agreed. The Communists apparently did not dare object. It remained to be seen whether the Syrian Communists would be forced underground like Egypt's. "No Communist Party has ever dissolved itself before," said Party Chief Khaled Bakdash. "Dictatorships have on several occasions dissolved Communist parties...
Most observers regard Bizri and Bakdash as certified Reds but doubt that Hourani himself is a convinced or dedicated Communist; he is more probably for Hourani and the main chance. They also think that Serraj (who used to talk daily on the phone with Nasser) believes that he is using rather than being used by the Communists. Hourani burns with the ambition of building a "Greater Syria," which, if achieved, would topple Iraq's able, pro-Western leader Nuri asSaid, take oil-rich Iraq out of the Baghdad Pact and eventually unify Iraq, Syria and perhaps Lebanon...
First is the strong conviction among many Syrians that Khaled Bakdash is prepared to invoke his Moscow training and try to unseat Old Friend Hourani when the time is ripe; if this fails, then Bakdash will dash back to Moscow. Second, and still more important, is the fact that...