Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Torrential rains turned Baghdad's 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...
...between a regal round of banquets and state feasts the two Kings, as well as Iraqi Crown Prince Abdul Illah and Iraq's staunchly pro-Western Premier Nuri asSaid, got down to the business at hand: Soviet penetration, via Syria and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, of the Middle East. Saud, who mistrusts the British, watched parades of British-supplied military units, climbed aboard and peered through the hatch of a British Centurion tank. Probably the most significant meeting of the week was a private, unscheduled lunch given for the two monarchs by Premier asSaid at his yellow...
Richards had piled up a remarkable record during his harddriving, eight-week trip. Of the 13 countries he visited, eleven wholeheartedly bought into the doctrine or registered their general approval. Among the outright subscribers are the four Baghdad Pact members (Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan) and Greece. Saudi Arabia, with Lebanon, Libya and Ethiopia, have signed policy declarations expressing opposition to international Communism. Afghanistan, more circumspect because of neighboring Russia, welcomed the overall U.S. objective in the Middle East-national independence and economic betterment...
...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...
When it came down to the crucial moment, Nasser and the Syrians proved unwilling-or unable-to make an all-out effort to destroy Hussein. To do so would have forced an open split with King Saud, perhaps would have compelled him still further toward Iraq and the West. This week there was a flurry of flying to save faces.. Syria's Kuwatly popped in on Nasser; together with Nasser's top political adviser, he went on to Mecca to see Saud. They were all desirous of re-creating that somewhat bogus show of Arab unity proclaimed...