Word: nuri
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even a softhearted dictator, however, has his enemies. Two of Zaim's are Nuri Said, Premier of Iraq, and King Abdullah of Jordan. Both have long cast covetous eyes on Syria as a desirable part of their respective schemes for an Arab federation. Zaim himself favors a revitalized Arab League, but would prefer to boss it himself. With the Palestine war over, his chances of doing just that seemed to be looking...
...friendly visit by a nephew to an uncle? But last week, when Hashimite nephew Prince Abdul Illah, Regent of Iraq, went to call on Hashimite uncle King Abdullah in the dingy Trans-Jordan capital of Amman, many an Arab politician fidgeted. That the Regent's fellow traveler was Nuri Es-Said Pasha, perennial Prime Minister of Iraq (temporarily out of office), did not add to their comfort. Arabs suspected that a familiar bee was buzzing in the Iraqis' sedarah.* With British prompting, they thought, the Hashimite family was talking of uniting its holdings in a big Hashimite kingdom...
...adviser, 59-year-old Nuri Pasha, who fought for the British in World War I, is one of the few Arab statesmen who will publicly say what many secretly think-that until the world has settled down a bit, Arabs had better rely on British support. Last week Nuri said it again: "If [the United Nations] proves unable to provide security, we shall have to find other means to guarantee our safety." Everyone knew that by "other means" he meant a continued alliance with the British. Nuri added that there would probably be no early revision of the 1930 Anglo...
...Nuri Pasha knew that the British had insured oil-rich Iraq against Russian pressure as well as against bandits and djinns. If the Hashimites and their advisers who gathered in Amman last week decided on a customs and military union, it would be because the British thought the time had come for a stronger Hashimite state. But such things move slowly in the Arab world. Perhaps, as the Arabs say, union would be achieved bukra fil mishmish (tomorrow, when the apricots bloom)-a day which never comes...
...more moderate Palestine Arab Party was satisfied with British action stopping Jewish immigration. The extremist Independence Arab Party favored immediate action against the Jews. In desperation, Mardam called in Iraq's Nuri Pasha, an old hand at settling Arab disputes. At week's end, negotiations broke down again...