IRAQ: BAGHDAD: GENERAL KASSEM ACCLAIMED AT POPULAR RALLY.

Record ID: 214953

  • Title: IRAQ: BAGHDAD: GENERAL KASSEM ACCLAIMED AT POPULAR RALLY.
  • Date: 7th December 1961
  • Summary: 1. S.TV. CROWD IN PROCESSION. 0.03 2. S.TV. DITTO. 0.06 3. S.TV. DITTO. 0.11 4. ANGLE V. KASSEM ON BALCONY. 0.15 5. REAR V. DITTO. 0.17 6. SIDE V. DITTO. 0.21 7. SV. DITTO. 0.22 8. T.GV. MASSED GROUP. 0.24 9. S.TV. DITTO. 0.26 10. S.CU. EXCITED CROWD. 0.29 11. SV. SECTION OF CROWD DANCING. 0.32
  • Embargoed: 22nd December 1961 12:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA14S0DPRB41XGOAKOJKDPZ11IM
  • Story Text: A POPULAR RALLY STAGED TO ACCLAIM IRAQI LEADER, PRIME MINISTER ABDUL KARIM KASSEM, FILED IN MASS PAST THE LEADER'S DEFENCE MINISTRY HEADQUARTERS IN BAGHDAD, THE CAPITAL, DEC 3.

    CROWDED TOGETHER IN THE MAIN SQUARE, WORKER AND PEASANTS APPLAUDED THE LEADER STANDING, AS USUAL ON SUCH OCCASIONS, ON A BALCONY OF THE MINISTRY, TO SHOW THEIR LOYALTY TO THE PRIME MINISTER, WHO IS ALSO COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE IRAQI ARMED SERVICES.

    DECEMBER 3 IS THE DAY THE LEADER'S SUPPORTERS CELEBRATE ANNUALLY TO MARK HIS ESCAPE FROM AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT IN 1959. AT A CELEBRATION GATHERING AFTER THE PARADE, PRIME MINISTER KASSEM WAS REPORTED TO HAVE ATTACKED BRITAIN BY NAME FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PUBLIC. "KUWAIT, THIS USURPED LAND,WILL RETURN TO OUR HOMELAND. I REMIND BRITAIN TO KEEP OUT OF KUWAIT OR ELSE WE SHALL KINDLE AN INTERNECINE WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND FORCE BRITAIN TO GET OUT", UK AMBASSADOR SIR ROGER ALLAN WAS REPORTED TO HAVE HEARD THE PRIME MINISTER SAY AT THE GATHERING.
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