Word: feisal
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...cousin King Feisal had been killed, his country's union with Iraq shattered by the Baghdad revolt. His own throne was in jeopardy, his own life in danger. At a critical moment when he still had no pledge of outside help and no firm assurance that his own troops would remain loyal, King Hussein I, a 22-year-old boy turned man, chose to hang on and to fight back. For sheer pluck and determination, no man in the Middle East surpassed him last week...
...King. Under the Arab Union's constitution, Hussein, the "No. 2 King" in the federation of Iraq and Jordan, automatically became ruler of both Jordan and Iraq when Feisal was assassinated. He appealed to loyal Iraqis to fight under his banner alongside his own British-trained Arab Legion, once the best Arab fighting force in the Middle East. When it became apparent that there were no loyal forces left in Iraq, Hussein told his people in a broadcast, "The ambitions of international Communism have reached our country through certain Arab leaders who gave themselves to the devil...
...without firing a shot, his soldiers took over the key points of the city. One by one the railroad station, the main intersections, the post and telegraph offices and the radio station were surrounded. By the time the troops began heading for the palace of 23-year-old King Feisal, an excited mob was at their heels...
Waiting in Vain. The revolt had been timed for the early morning departure of King Feisal, the Crown Prince, and Nuri asSaid for Istanbul, to attend an emergency session of the Baghdad Pact-concerned not about Iraq, but revolt-torn Lebanon...
...battle: Iraq has fewer than 6,000,000 people, Egypt more than 22 million. When Nasser seized power in neighboring Syria last February and proclaimed the United Arab Republic, Iraq countered on February 14 by merging with its Hashemite brother, Jordan, in the Arab Union, Iraq's King Feisal became the head of the union, but the Constitution provided that in his absence, authority would pass to his young cousin, King Hussein of Jordan. Should Hussein now call for outside help, this clause might prove crucial in establishing the legitimacy of foreign intervention...