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Nasser renewed his attack on Premier Abdel Karim Kassem in a biting discussion of the Mosul rebellion before flag-waving student demonstrators at the presidential palace in Damascus...
...first time, Premier Karim Kassem publicly jostled President Nasser for his place in Arab leadership...
Seven months ago, in the heady days after they had killed King Feisal and seized power in Baghdad, Major General Karim Kassem and Colonel Abdul Salam Mohammed Aref were "brothers in revolt" who slept on the floor of the same office in the Defense Ministry Building. Last week after a sort of show trial before a military court, Colonel Aref was sentenced to death for trying to kill his chief, Premier Kassem...
When the Iraqi army killed King Feisal and seized power last July, General Karim Kassem threw his arms around his top lieutenant, Colonel Abdul Salem Mohammed Aref, and called him "my brother in revolt." Others, presumably including Aref himself, decided that the hot-eyed Aref might one day play Nasser to Kassem's Naguib. Last week a prosecutor at one of Baghdad's show trials revealed, almost in passing, that Aref has already been tried and convicted of treason...
...months since he seized power in Baghdad, wiry Strongman Karim Kassem has been obsessed by one problem: how to escape domination by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. To fight off the Arab nationalists in his midst, Kassem all but handed control of the Baghdad mob to the Communists, did not even intervene when the Reds organized a stone-throwing reception for U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree (TIME, Dec. 29). Last week, for the first time, there were signs that Kassem might have come to realize that Moscow's embrace can be even more crushing than Cairo...