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...Egyptian Prime Minister Sidki meets China's Minister of Industry...
...final blaze of glory when two men in officer's uniforms emerged from the officers' mess at Mosul airport. Taking seats on a bench overlooking the field they watched the light dim in the west. One of the two was Irak's dictator, General Bakri Sidki Pasha, waiting for a plane to fly to Turkey to witness Turkish army maneuvers. The other was his righthandman, Major Mohamed Ali Jawdat, commander of Irak's air force. In the gathering darkness their cigarets glowed peacefully. A soldier sidled near and suddenly appeared from the shadows, revolver in hand...
Thus was poetic justice done, for only last October swashbuckling General Sidki organized a putsch, sent a flight of bombing planes circling over Bagdad, forced young, dreamy-eyed King Ghazi to install a puppet Premier (TIME, Nov. 9), and proceeded to consolidate his own power by instigating the assassination of General Jafar Pasha el Askari, the Defense Minister...
...merely a family feud which last week resulted in the death of General Sidki, but his assassin, Abdulla Ibrahim, a relative of the murdered Defense Minister, unwittingly served the cause of the British. For General Sidki's rule imperiled Britain's dominance over young King Ghazi whose kingdom lies on Britain's air route to the East, and Sidki's taking off made the Orient safer for the King Emperor George...
British bombing planes used to keep Irak quiet, but last week Irak bombers were used by the Army's ruthless pan-Arab Major General Bakri Sidki Pasha to effect his putsch. He kept them circling over Bagdad for two hours, perfunctorily bombarded the Ministry Offices, and then issued a communique hanging around the neck of the 24-year-old King Ghazi responsibility for the change of Cabinet which by then had taken place...
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