Word: feisal
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...more term of office, the longest spell (34 months) that Iraq's durable strongman had ever stayed in the Premier's post. Even if he relinquished office, Nuri would still be the dominant figure in Iraq. But he knew that Iraq's boy king, Feisal II, would ask him to try again, and Nuri would have a chance to form a new government, with a widened Cabinet. In office or out, the adroit, 68-year-old Nuri is the senior Arab statesman of the Middle East, and the Middle East's strongest pro-Western statesman...
...ancient streets into a morass of mud, splashed monotonously on the broad, glossy leaves of the eucalyptus trees that screen the chocolate-colored walls of Al Zuhour palace from public view. Al Zu-hour palace is the birthplace of Iraq's 22-year-old Hashemite King Feisal, whose line has waged a blood feud intermittently for over half a century with the usurping Sauds of Arabia. But last week, for seven busy and significant days, the palace served as a royal guest house for King Saud of Saudi Arabia...
...King Saud prepared to emplane for home, he and Feisal drew up a communique hailing the "new era of cordial relations" between their countries, pledged themselves to "oppose all attempts at foreign interference." From Jordan young King Hussein sent a message of regret that he could not join his fellow Kings, a gambit carefully arranged in advance to demonstrate that Saud, Feisal and Hussein were one for all and all for one, but without jamming the distasteful news too forcibly down Nasser's throat...
...Submerge a Feud. Later this month King Saud will visit Baghdad to see Iraq's 22-year-old King Feisal, and perhaps his Hashemite cousin, Hussein of Jordan, too. Together these three Kings control a huge hunk of the Arab Middle East and the vast bulk of its economic resources. If Saud can submerge his old feuds with the Hashemites, an effective counterweight to Nasser (and to his lone ally, Syria) will have been built up in the Arab world itself...
...Feisal reassured him that Iraqi troops would be at his disposal. That meant that if the Syrians threatened to use their 4,000 troops and 30 Czech tanks in Jordan against the King, he could stop them by threatening to call in the Iraqis. But Israel, which wants no powerful Arab neighbor at its back door, has often warned that its army will enter Jordan whenever Iraqi soldiers do. On his return to Amman. Hussein summoned U.S. Ambassador Mallory to his hilltop palace. The King wanted the U.S. to exert all its influence to keep the Israelis out. Hussein also...