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Both Syria and Jordan were teetering between East and West. In Syria conservative elements around President Shukri el Kuwatly had not managed to unseat Strongman Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, partisan of Soviet cooperation, from his job as army security chief, but they did manage to transfer some of his followers out of key posts last week, and felt a little safer...
Their decision to subdue Serraj dates from the Cairo conference of Arab leaders when Arabia's King Saud, fresh from his U.S. visit, pointedly lectured Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly on the importance of fighting Communist infiltration. Emboldened by Saud's advice, portly, opportunistic Shukri el Kuwatly went back to Damascus, called in Chief of Staff Tewfiq Nizam el Din, and drew up orders transferring some 120 pro-Serraj army officers to out-of-the-way posts. For Serraj himself, Kuwatly and Nizam el Din chose an ironically suitable post: Syrian representative to the joint Arab...
...steps. All the way back from his warming visit to President Dwight Eisenhower, Saud had been proclaiming his faith in Ike. "I am convinced that the future of the Arab world must be founded on its friendship with America," he said. Last week, as Nasser, Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly and Jordan's young King Hussein gathered in Cairo to hear his report, Saud was a frank advocate of the U.S. position, said an informed Egyptian. "Saud spoke repeatedly of the Eisenhower era. He said it was a great new chance for the Arab cause...
...world, and in its heavily censored press permitted only the official Russian version on Hungary to be printed, suddenly flung wide its doors to the West last week. For U.S. reporters who have been trying ever since the Suez invasion to find out who is running Syria, portly President Shukri el Kuwatly, 65, held genial open house. The reversal reflected Syrian concern over Western journalistic coverage, much of it highly exaggerated, of a Soviet take-over in Syria...
...concern about Russian penetration of the Middle East turned to a second trouble spot: Syria. There, another Russian-backed Nasser has come to power: young, handsome bachelor Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj. From the moment Syria proclaimed martial law after the Anglo-French and Israeli invasions of Egypt, President Shukri el Kuwatly has been the virtual prisoner of the army, and Colonel Serraj has established himself as Syria's strongman. Nominally the army's chief of intelligence, Colonel Serraj last month personally planned the sabotage of the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline to the Mediterranean...