Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iraqi party that supports Kassem's home and foreign policies without giving allegiance either to Cairo or to Moscow is the National Democratic Party. Since last summer the National Democrats have been fighting a fierce battle with the Communists for the loyalties of Iraqi farmers. The Communists won the first skirmish by getting a Redlined onetime hospital orderly elected to the presidency of the National Federation of Peasants' Associations. But the farmers thereupon deserted the Peasants Federation. Last week, in defiance of the Federation, the National Democrats led more than 100,000 Iraqi farmers and peasants past...
...public utterances, at first so mild, impersonal and idealistic through the bitter slanging match that raged between Iraq and Nasser's United Arab Republic, have suddenly taken on a high emotional tone. To visitors at Baghdad's As-Salaam Hospital, he declared last week that the Iraqi revolution had delayed World War III for several years. ''We were the reason for the rapprochement among the big powers," he boasted...
Reviving the old Hashemite dream of a "Fertile Crescent" extending from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf, he trumpeted that neighboring Syria is "inseparable from the Iraqi people." and that Jordan "is still tied to the chariot of imperialism and when she wishes to recover her freedom we will be ready to help her." Turning to Nasser, he poked at a tender spot: the Nasser-nurtured myth that Egyptians actually won a stunning victory in the Suez and Sinai fighting in 1956. He sneered at "the weak Egyptian army command" that could prevent "the Jews from capturing no fewer than...
...Republic's President Nasser, laid plans to intervene when and if civil war broke out between Iraq's Communists and antiCommunists. In Syria, the junior member of the U.A.R., 3,000 Palestinians, trained as Nasserite commandos, were being held in readiness barely 100 miles from the strategic Iraqi city of Mosul, and Bedouin tribes along the frontier had been organized into fighting units by Iraqi officers who had fled the brutal justice of Kassem's People's Court. From Jordan, where young King Hussein still dreams of succeeding to the vanished Iraqi throne of his murdered...
...Baghdad itself, daily bulletins continued to insist that Kassem was recovering nicely from his wounds, would soon leave the hospital. On that happy day, Iraqi citizens were promised free admission to movie theaters, half fare on trains, and free circumcision for their newborn sons. But like any other Arab strongman, Kassem derives his power less from the people than from the army. At week's end, from his hospital bed, "the sole leader'' made a public declaration of confidence in the loyalty of his troops: "I can assure you there is not in the whole...