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...reason for such secrecy seems to be a general revulsion against the self-glorification of Kassem's four-year dictatorship. "We revolted against the cult of personality,'I explained new Foreign Minister Talib Hussein Shabib. 32. To the key question of who is boss of the new Iraq, the answer seems to be: at the moment, no one man. President Aref cannot make major decisions without the concurrence of the mysterious National Council...
...have been educated in the West, ranging from Foreign Minister Shabib, who graduated from London University and is married to an Englishwoman, to Finance Minister Salih Kubba, who attended the University of California and has an international reputation as an economist. Seven of the new Cabinet ministers were in Kassem's concentration camp at Rashid military base until the rebels broke down the gates during the coup...
...including a revival of the old concept of loose unity in the "Fertile Crescent"-Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. Already Syria, having broken free from Nasser, was proposing federation to Iraq's new leaders. The ideas of the new Iraqis seem liberal, humane and democratic. But so did Kassem's program when he first seized power; his reign swiftly drifted to brutality and degradation...
...local Communists, the only group still supporting the discredited Kassem regime, were being stridently urged by Moscow's powerful Arabic voice in East Germany to "struggle against the fascist imperialist regime now foisted on Iraq." Some Communists responded by sniping from rooftops, but their organization had suffered a devastating blow. Hundreds of the dogged men with green armbands, carrying mimeographed lists of Red leaders complete with home addresses and auto license numbers, methodically hunted down the Communists, who had grown strong in Kassem's final months. By last week the new regime had killed or jailed nearly...
...Western diplomats. But anyone who had witnessed the perilous passage of other, earlier revolts with laudable ambitions, could only hope that the rebels would stop the shooting and start running the country. In the long run, guns will hardly serve the new regime better than they served Abdul Karim Kassem...