Word: premiers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the new government began a campaign to tell them that they would still have to wait. Stumping the country by helicopter, Deputy Premier Colonel Abdul el-Sallam Mohammed Aref warned: "You must be patient. Everything cannot be solved in one hour, one day, or one month...
...high-ceilinged map room of the Defense Ministry in -Baghdad, Premier Abdul Kareem el-Kassim continued to issue, in his own cautious way, the soothing statements he has been making since the day of his lightning coup. "We are pragmatic people trying to do the best for our country," said he. "We cannot be qualified as Socialists or anything else. Our tendencies should be judged by our actions...
...reform and wholly without opposition. Last week, after properly waiting until hundreds of notables, led by the Duke of Gloucester, had crowded into Queen's Chapel of the Savoy in London for a memorial service to Iraq's assassinated King Feisal II, Crown Prince Abdul Illah and Premier Nuri asSaid, Her Majesty's British Government officially recognized the new regime that had overthrown and murdered these friends of the West. Next day the U.S. did the same, and promptly sent Troubleshooter Robert Murphy off to Baghdad for talks...
...While Premier el-Kassim insists that he does not want to repeat Nasser's mistake of driving away experienced people, his government has already dismissed or jailed most members of the old Development Board, including the director of oil affairs, who probably knows more about the business than anyone else in the country. The present Development Minister is a 29-year-old engineer with a reputation among rebels based largely on a tract he once wrote denouncing the old board, whose plans made Iraq the most promising land of the Middle East...
...Know, Brethren . . ." The Deputy Premier's mission was a sign of the split personality of the new government, which seems to speak with two voices. One voice belongs to Premier el-Kassim, a bachelor and simple soldier who has resolutely avoided the usual pastime of denouncing Israel, or even of damning the U.S. Marine Corps landings in Lebanon ("I do not believe the Americans will engage in any hostilities"). The other voice is that of 39-year-old Aref, onetime military student of El-Kassim's and, significantly, the only other man to know the exact hour...