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Emir Abdul Illah (38), Regent of Iraq, has ruled the country since 1939, on behalf of his nephew, King Feisal II (16). Moderately able, but without stature or drive. Favorite pastime: driving through Bagdad in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee state coach (which he bought in 1949, insured...
Feisal II, * 16, King of Iraq, already safe on his strawberry-colored throne in Bagdad. He has been twelve years a monarch (but not yet a ruler; Iraq is governed in Feisal's name by 38-year-old Regent Abdul Illah, the boy King's crafty, effeminate uncle). Weaned on a well-balanced formula of British manners and Arab morals (an English governess taught him etiquette in the mornings; Queen Mother Aliyah read Islamic literature in the evenings), swarthy Feisal grew up a toytown prince, boxed in by such old-fashioned playthings as a 3-ft.-long General...
...when he is 18, Feisal will replace Abdul Illah as constitutional ruler of Iraq. Thousands of the Faithful hope the black-eyed little King will unite the Arab lands. Speaking of the Middle East, he once said: "Why those frontiers? We all speak the same language...
Married. Emir Abdul Illah, 35, dapper, Anglophile regent and heir apparent to the throne of Iraq; and Fayza el Traboulsi, 22, daughter of a well-heeled Egyptian army officer; he for the second time, she for the first; in Bagdad...
...kings issued a joint statement in the same vein: no compromise. But on the next leg of his journey, to visit his nephew Regent Abdul Illah of Iraq, Abdullah dropped a hint to the Arab press to stop the chest-thumping which makes compromise impossible. Said Abdullah: "The significant feature of the situation is not so much a matter of the Arab states being against the Jews but rather against the supporters of world Jewry in the international sphere. Therefore, I wish to advise the Arab press not to be too optimistic . . . not too pessimistic...