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...Syrian ports, but has reason to know that some Syrian military and political higher-ups are also disturbed at Communist influence and the dangerous ambitions of Colonel Serraj. In both Washington and Paris last week, the word Guatemala popped up in speculations about Syria-meaning that a more pro-Western government might be encouraged to seize power...
Iraq. Syria's larger and richer eastern neighbor (pop. 5,200,000) has long been the only strongly pro-Western Arab state. This is largely the doing of astute old Premier Nuri es-Said, 68, once an officer in the Ottoman army. His country is oil prosperous, and invests 70% of its royalties in soundly planned long-range improvements (dams, irrigation, schools). But the mobs in the streets, stirred by Cairo, Damascus and Moscow radios, denounce Nuri es-Said as a British stooge. Last week open trouble broke out. For six days Arabs demonstrated in the holy city...
Syria has stood midway between the pro-Western and the Anti-Western Arab states. Recently she has listed menacingly towards the Communist side. The Syrian nation is bordered on the North by Turkey, on the East by Iraq, both states of the pro-Western Bagdhad pact, of which Britain is a member. To the South is unstable Jordan, to the West solidly pro-Western Lebanon. For sixty miles on the Southeast Syria borders Israel. Syria's economy is weak, but she holds a strong card in lying squarely across the vital pipelines leading from Iraq to the West...
Syria's main target at present is Iraq. Under strongly pro-Western King Faisal II, and Premier Nuri el-Said, Iraq has pursued a policy of opposing Soviet infiltration in the Middle East. She is, however, not entirely pro-West, as was demonstrated last Saturday when Faisal spoke of "beloved Egypt" and regretted her "present woes." There are Iraqui elements which are far more Kremlin-inclined than Faisal or el-Said, and which would ally Iraq with the Syrian and Egyptian camps if they could gain power. Some observers sense a gradual anti-West drift in Iraq...
Internal sentiments in both countries reenforce the major political forces. In Syria, long-nurtured anti-West popular resentment supports Saraj and his pro-Nassar position. In Iraq, popular sentiment stands behind el-Said, and his dream of Arab unity under Iraqui, pro-Western leadership...