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My Memoirs My Memoirs Half a Century of the History of Iraq and the Arab Cause Tawfiq al-Suwaydi ~ Translated from the Arabic by Nancy Roberts with an Introduction by Antony T. Sullivan boulder london Published in the United States of America in 2013 by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. 1800 30th Street, Boulder, Colorado 80301 www.rienner.com and in the United Kingdom by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. 3 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8LU 2013 by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved „ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Suwaydi, Tawfiq, 1892–1968. [Mudhakkirati. English] My memoirs : half a century of the history of Iraq and the Arab cause / by Tawfiq al-Suwaydi ; translated from the Arabic by Nancy Roberts. pages cm. Includes index. ISBN 978-1-58826-903-4 (alk. paper) 1. Suwaydi, Tawfiq, 1892–1968. 2. Politicians—Iraq—Biography. 3. Iraq—Politics and government. I. Title. DS79.6.S8A3 2013 956.704'2092—dc23 [B] 2013004962 British Cataloguing in Publication Data A Cataloguing in Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. Printed and bound in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1992. 5 4 3 2 1 Con~tents List of Photographs ix Foreword, Ali Allawi xiii Preface, Luay Tawfiq al-Suwaydi xv Acknowledgments, Spindrift Beck al-Suwaydi xvii Introduction, A~ntony T. Sullivan 1 My Memoirs: Half a Century of the History of Iraq and the Arab Cause 51 Dedication 53 1 My Upbringing 55 2 In Public Life: The Literary Forum 61 3 Iraq’s Independence: The Iraqi Congress 85 4 Faisal in Iraq 101 5 Democracy in Iraq 117 6 Oil Concessions 127 v vi Contents 7 The Hashemite-Saudi Clash 129 8 On Iraqi Politics 145 9 My First Term as Prime Minister 153 10 ‘Abd al-Muhsin al-Sa‘dun 177 11 Nuri al-Sa‘id Enters the Scene 189 12 Chargé d’Affaires in Tehran 191 13 At the League of Nations 225 14 The Ill-Fated Coups Begin 243 15 Geneva, Paris, London, Ankara 257 16 Events on the Brink of War 277 17 At the London Conference on the Palestine Issue 283 18 Unrest in Iraq 293 19 The al-Gaylani Movement and Its Outcomes 301 20 The Arab League 341 21 My Second Term as Prime Minister 351 22 The Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1948 381 23 My Third Term as Prime Minister 403 24 The Era of King Faisal II 421 25 The Baghdad Pact 435 26 Nationalization of the Suez Canal 441 27 A Hashemite-Saudi Rapprochement 465 Contents vii 28 The Arab Union 467 29 Iraq and Kuwait 475 30 Iraq’s Catastrophe: July 14, 1958 479 31 The View from Exile 503 32 Conclusion 513 Index 527 About the Book 545 Photo~graphs Tawfiq al-Suwaydi, ca. 1910 7 Yusuf al-Suwaydi, 1920s 17 Tawfiq al-Suwaydi and Ja‘far al-‘Askari, Paris, early 1920s 24 A Lebanese military detchment offers a final salute to deceased Tawfiq al-Suwaydi 41 Arab dignitaries and the mayor of Beirut watch the aircraft bearing the remains of Tawfiq al-Suwaydi 42 King Hussein bin ‘Ali, sharif of Mecca 64 King ‘Abdullah bin al-Hussein, the king of Jordan 87 King Faisal I 99 Al-Suwaydi’s first cabinet with King Faisal I and guests, 1929 156 ‘Abd al-Muhsin al-Sa‘dun 180 Al-Suwaydi and companions, during the visit of King Faisal I to Iran, 1931 214 King Ghazi 244 Al-Suwaydi as head of the Iraqi delegation to the League of Nations in Geneva, 1937 250 Al-Suwaydi at a celebration held in Damascus in his honor, 1938 260 Al-Suwaydi in Beirut, 1938, with President Émile Eddé and Prime Minister Khalid Shihab 261 Al-Suwaydi with the director of international accounting in Geneva, 1938 266 Al-Suwaydi with Prince ‘Adil Arslan and Tawfiq Aras in Geneva, 1938 271 Al-Suwaydi with Anthony Eden in Cairo, 1941 296 Al-Suwaydi with Prime Minister Hussein Sirri Pasha, Tahsin al-‘Askari, and Khalil Ibrahim in Cairo, 1941 297 ix x Photographs Al-Suwaydi with Ambassador ‘Ali Mahir Pasha and Prime Minister Ahmad Hussein Pasha in Cairo, 1941 299 Rashid ‘Ali al-Gaylani 315 Al-Suwaydi with Haj Muhammad Amin al-Husseini 325 Al-Suwaydi with Prince ‘Abd al-Ilah 348 Al-Suwaydi with Hussein Makan and Ahmad Mukhtar Baban, 1946 352 Al-Suwaydi receiving the British foreign secretary in Baghdad, 1946 355 Al-Suwaydi at a meeting of the Arab League in Cairo, 1946 361 Al-Suwaydi with Prime Minister Ibrahim ‘Abd al-Hadi Pasha of Egypt 394 Al-Suwaydi as head of the Iraqi delegation to the United Nations, 1949 398 Al-Suwaydi with Ahmad Khashabah Pasha, 1949 399 Al-Suwaydi with Charles Malik at the United Nations, 1949 400 Al-Suwaydi with Nuri al-Sa‘id and ‘Ali Jawdat al-Ayyubi 401 Al-Suwaydi with Prince ‘Abd al-Ilah 404 Al-Suwaydi with notable leaders during his third cabinet in Baghdad, 1950 407 Al-Suwaydi at the signing of the Basic Technical Assistance Agreement between Iraq and the United Nations in Baghdad, 1950 407 Al-Suwaydi during a speech he delivered to the Arab League Council in Cairo, 1950 409 Al-Suwaydi as chairman of the Arab League Council in Cairo, 1950 410 Al-Suwaydi with the prime ministers of Lebanon and Syria in Cairo, 1950 411 Al-Suwaydi as head of the Arab League Council in Cairo, 1950 411 Al-Suwaydi delivering a speech in Cairo, 1950 412 Al-Suwaydi with Mustafa Nahhas Pasha, Muhammad Salah al-Din Pasha, and Baha’ al-Din Tuqan in Cairo, 1950 412 Al-Suwaydi at the Arab League meeting with Prime Minister Khalid al-‘Azm and Muhammad Salah al-Din Pasha, 1951 414 Al-Suwaydi with Prince ‘Abd al-Ilah and President Camille Chamoun, in 1953 422 Al-Suwaydi with President Camille Chamoun in Baghdad, 1953 422 Al-Suwaydi with President Camille Chamoun, King Faisal II, and Prince ‘Abd al-Ilah in Baghdad, 1953 423 King Faisal II, bin Ghazi bin Faisal I bin al-Hussein 424 Al-Suwaydi with Muhammad al-Sadr and Jamil al-Midfa‘i 424 Al-Suwaydi as head of the Iraqi delegation to the Arab League Council in Damascus, 1951 429
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