Word: shukri
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When, early in the week, Saudi Arabia's King Saud offered to mediate the Turkish-Syrian quarrel, Syria's ailing President Shukri el Kuwatly grabbed at the offer. "We accept your effort with all satisfaction," he said. In the U.N. the other Arab nations, anxious to forestall further Russian meddling in the Middle East, privately urged the Syrians to accept Saud's good offices. (The sole exception: Egypt, whose President Gamal Abdel Nasser regards Saud as a dangerous rival for leadership of the Arab world.) Then the word from Moscow-"An effort to evade U.N. debate...
...Egyptians before he took his stand beside Ike in Washington last winter against Communist penetration of the Middle East. Four MIG jets escorted his plane to Damascus' Mezze field, where the King stepped forth in flowing brown robes to review an honor guard, kiss the cheeks of President Shukri el Kuwatly and listen to purple-worded welcomes. Privately the King warned both Kuwatly and new Army Chief Afif Bizri (who denies U.S. allegations that he is a Communist) against too close cooperation with Soviet Russia, and exacted a promise that they would not grant Russia any military bases...
...invitation, how far the Russians mean to go in accepting it, and how irreversible the present course is, remain to be seen. In Cairo, where he hustled off early last week to ease his ulcer and talk to Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly, a moderate rightist but also something of a weakling, vehemently denied that his country was turning Communist. The U.S., said El Kuwatly, "should leave us alone." But El Kuwatly's own attempt to keep a check on the rise of the pro-Soviet wing had obviously failed. During...
...Shukri el Kuwatly, independent Syria's first President-and President again now-did not long survive Syria's humiliating performance against the Israelis in 1948. (Syria's one claim to military distinction was the capture of a small hill 48 hours after the armistice.) In March 1949 Kuwatly was ousted in a bloodless revolt led by a Kurdish colonel. Two more revolts followed and the second brought to power hard-eyed little Colonel Adib Shishekly, who favorably impressed visiting Western statesmen. But his ironhanded dictatorship earned him innumerable enemies, and in 1954 another army revolt sent...
...Seen simply, the issue was between the nations like Iraq and Saudi Arabia which have chosen Washington, and Egyypt and Syria which are playing with Moscow. But nothing is ever that simple in the Middle East. King Saud likes Ike. but does not defy Nasser. Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly has himself flown to Moscow-but is disturbed by the way his ambitious young army colonel, Abdel Hamid Serraj, is nuzzling up to the Communists. Nasser himself would not want Jordan to deteriorate so rapidly that either of his enemies, Iraq or Israel, might march in. In such...