My memoirs :
Suwayd�i, Tawf�iq, 1892-1968,
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. - 1 online resource (563 pages)
Includes index.
List of Photographs -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Dedication -- 1. My upbringing -- 2. In public life: the literary forum -- 3. Iraq's independence: the Iraqi Congress -- 4. Faisal in Iraq -- 5. Democracy in Iraq -- 6. Oil concessions -- 7. The Hashemite-Saudi clash -- 8. On Iraqi politics -- 9. My first term as Prime Minister -- 10. Abd al-Muhsin al-Sa�dun -- 11. Nuri al-Sa�id enters the scene -- 12. Minister plenipotentiary in Tehran -- 13. At the League of Nations -- 14. The ill-fated coups begin -- 15. Geneva, Paris, London, Ankara -- 16. Events on the brink of war -- 17. At the London conference on the Palestine issue -- 18. Unrest in Iraq -- 19. The Gaylani movement and its outcomes -- 20. The Arab League -- 21. My second term as Prime Minister -- 22. The Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1948 -- 23. My third term as Prime Minister -- 24. The era of king Faisal II -- 25. The Baghdad Pact -- 26. Nationalization of the Suez Canal -- 27. A Hashemite-Saudi rapprochement -- 28. The Arab Federation -- 29. Iraq and Kuwait -- 30. Iraq's catastrophe: July 14, 1958 -- 31. The view from exile -- 32. Conclusion.
9781626373969 (e-book)
Suwayd�i, Tawf�iq, 1892-1968.
Politicians--Iraq--Biography.
Iraq--Politics and government.
Electronic books.
DS79.6.S8 / A3 2013
956.704/2092 B
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. - 1 online resource (563 pages)
Includes index.
List of Photographs -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Dedication -- 1. My upbringing -- 2. In public life: the literary forum -- 3. Iraq's independence: the Iraqi Congress -- 4. Faisal in Iraq -- 5. Democracy in Iraq -- 6. Oil concessions -- 7. The Hashemite-Saudi clash -- 8. On Iraqi politics -- 9. My first term as Prime Minister -- 10. Abd al-Muhsin al-Sa�dun -- 11. Nuri al-Sa�id enters the scene -- 12. Minister plenipotentiary in Tehran -- 13. At the League of Nations -- 14. The ill-fated coups begin -- 15. Geneva, Paris, London, Ankara -- 16. Events on the brink of war -- 17. At the London conference on the Palestine issue -- 18. Unrest in Iraq -- 19. The Gaylani movement and its outcomes -- 20. The Arab League -- 21. My second term as Prime Minister -- 22. The Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1948 -- 23. My third term as Prime Minister -- 24. The era of king Faisal II -- 25. The Baghdad Pact -- 26. Nationalization of the Suez Canal -- 27. A Hashemite-Saudi rapprochement -- 28. The Arab Federation -- 29. Iraq and Kuwait -- 30. Iraq's catastrophe: July 14, 1958 -- 31. The view from exile -- 32. Conclusion.
9781626373969 (e-book)
Suwayd�i, Tawf�iq, 1892-1968.
Politicians--Iraq--Biography.
Iraq--Politics and government.
Electronic books.
DS79.6.S8 / A3 2013
956.704/2092 B