Word: naguib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
There are signs of trouble in the top leadership. Grizzled General Kassem is no man to be taken for another Naguib. After the July revolution his right-hand man, Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Mohammed Aref, rushed to Damascus to share Nasser's balcony, returned promising quick Arab unity through union with Nasser's U.A.R., seemed to be challenging Kassem's leadership. Touring the country making rabble-rousing speeches, Aref promised to strip landlords of their vast holdings, foreigners of more of treir oil profits. But Iraq's big Kurdish minority fear they might be submerged...
Four weeks after the revolution, it begins to look as if El-Kassim may be fated to play Naguib to Aref's Nasser. In a speech three weeks ago, Aref left little doubt about his own beliefs-or what the West might expect, should the extremists decide that soft-spoken El-Kassim had outlived his usefulness...
...Having personally recruited 700 Free Officers, he led the army revolt overthrowing Farouk, and wielded power through an older, pipe-smoking front man, General Mohammed Naguib, who is now under house arrest. That year Dwight Eisenhower was elected President of the U.S., and Mossadegh, having nationalized Iran's oil, was driving Iran to bankruptcy...
...Dismissing Naguib as not revolutionary enough, Nasser became Premier himself. He negotiated British withdrawal from their Suez base, attended the Bandung Conference, and then, after rejecting a limited U.S. offer, ordered arms from the Soviet bloc...