Word: feisal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forth a new constitution conceived in careful wisdom and dedicated to the proposition that member nations of the new Arab Federation are best treated equals. By late April both countries will have held elections amounting to a referendum on their federation. Then Iraq's 22-year-old King Feisal, as chief of the federal state, will appoint a premier to name a federal cabinet, and the Arab Federation will be in business...
Behind the wild stories were these ascertainable facts: Saud and his brother, Crown Prince Feisal, are divided over Feisal's insistence on coming to some sort of terms with Nasser's new union. Arrests have been made, including at least one royal prince. Saudi Arabia has turned away all reporters at its borders for the last two weeks...
...giving up all hope of wooing him to his Arab Republic, heedless of the fact that this must drive Saud toward the Hashemite federation of Iraq and Jordan. Plainly, Nasser was pinning his hopes of uniting the Arab world on an attempt to unseat its Kings-Iraq's Feisal, Jordan's Hussein, and now Saudi Arabia's Saud. It was a dangerous ploy, and as the battle lines hardened, Iraq's Feisal summoned back the redoubtable Nuri asSaid to take over for his 14th tour as Premier...
...foreign policy, one foreign service. Both nations will keep their own legislatures. A combined federal legislature will be set up to deal with federal policies, in which Jordan and Iraq will have equal representation. It will sit half the time in Baghdad, half the time in Amman. Though Feisal is designated head of state, "the question of the head of state will be reviewed" if any other state joins the federation. This is a big hint that it is not too late for King Saud to line up with his fellow sovereigns. At week's end Amman reported that...
...first to hail the new federation was the very man whose appeal it was formed to oppose. Egypt's Nasser fired off a congratulatory message to Feisal expressing the hope that the union of Iraq and Jordan would hasten the day of "great unity" -at the same time that his propagandists were denouncing the whole thing as "a new farce" engineered by "the same traditional feudal opportunists who have nothing in common with Arab nationalism and Arab aspiration...