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...When Irak's lean King Feisal died last month (TIME, Sept. 18), he bequeathed to his son Ghazi a political juggling act: a circle of Moslem advisers nicely balanced between Anglophiles and Anglophobes. He bequeathed, too, his brother and personal adviser, that AH ibn Hussein who was King of the Hejaz for a year (1924-25) after his father Hussein abdicated and before Ibn Saud drove him out. Among the Arab clique; who stalk between the slender pillars of the King's Palace in Bagdad, Ali is rated an Anglophile. Against him are the Finance Minister, the Army...
...courtiers closely watched 21-year-old Ghazi I to see whether he had the will and the talent for juggling. He had been raised by a British governess, had worn Eton suits in Bagdad, played tennis. Mistrustful Arabs hawked wild rumors last month through Irak that he planned to marry a British woman. Last week King Ghazi ended that by stepping into his Throne Room before the members of his family and his Cabinet and betrothing himself to Adviser Ali's second daughter, his own first cousin, Princess Alija. Since she had lived all her life behind a veil...
Engaged. Ghazi I, 21, King of Irak; and his cousin. Princess Aliza, 22, daughter of onetime King Ali of the Hejaz...
...evidence that Western-written TIME does not confuse modern Irak with the old Ottoman regime let Reader Numan read TIME'S account of the life, times and death of Irak's able King Feisal (TIME, Sept...
...Irak, which is trying to live up to its obligations with genuine wholeheartedness and sincerity, is meeting a bitterly critical Western world when she reservedly and moderately acts to protect its very existence and sovereignty...