THE MIDDLE EAST: Double Trouble

Brother screamed at Arab brother last week in a way that suggested that Arab brotherhood is a sometime thing. In Cairo, President Nasser's marchers swung dead rats and dogs from mock gallows to show their hate for Premier Kassem and his Iraqi Communist allies. In Baghdad, Kassem supporters plastered the city with portraits of President Nasser's grinning countenance superimposed on pictures of donkeys, hyenas and dancing girls.

Nasser's Voice of the Arabs raged that Kassem was an apostate whose followers had torn up the Koran outside his office door shouting: "Death to...

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