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Matter of Fact if - if - if - Baghdad, Iraq. - These are breathless times, but this re porter cannot remember any purely politi cal situation more breath less than the one nere in Iraq. It lies in one man's power to In sure the vic tory or cause the defeat of 1 r JouDb AIsod ",c new com munist drive into the Arab lands. Which will he do? On ly he can say. But even if no one else can foretell the choice of Iraq's new revolutionary leader, Brig. Abdel Karim Kassem, it is at least possible to foretell the consequences of his choice. If Kassem finally accepts the role the Communists have allotted to him the role of the Kremlin's Nuri . Pasha -the consequences will be very serious indeed. The first ef- , f ects will appear in Syria, where the Communists are al ready growing . daily bolder and more defiant of Gamal Abdel Nasser. But in the end, the Lebanon and. Jordan and Egypt herself and the coun tries of the Arabian peninsula and the Arab lands in North Africa will also be explosive ly affected. AT the present stage of Ar ab development, in short, the trend in all the Arab lands will be deformed and twisted if Kassem makes the Iraqi choice in favor of the Communists. Gamal Abdel Nasser himself is not strong enough to prevent this result. For Nasser is too much the prisoner of his own past deal ings with the Kremlin to de fend the n o n - Communist Arab nationalism, which1 he really believes in, against the impact of a wrong choice by Kassem. ' But what if Kassem makes the other choice, as this re porter things more probable? That is the really exciting question. And the best answer is that the Iraqi revolution will then have a good chance of being remembered as the dawn of sanity in Arab af fairs. - ' The reason for this Is rather simple. " The ' essential ' point about the Iraqi revolution is that it shattered the founda tions of the Western policy in the Arab lands and of Nas ser's policy too. The old West ern policy was deeply influ- By Joseph Alsep enced by Britain's economic vulnerability. It was there fore founded on the principle of maintaining positions of strength, in the form of pro Western governments. These were in turn expected to pro tect Britain's and the West's Middle Eastern oil jugular. THERE is no use arguing any longer about whether the Western policy might have been made to work, by greater courage and adroit ness in Washington. The fact is that the Western policy of positions of strength was de feated, for good and all, when the old regime . in Iraq was bloodily wiped out. Further more, the Iraqi revolution has raised . an . obvious question about the necessity for this defeated policy; for the revo lutionary government here has most conspicuously re frained from nationalizing the Iraq Petroleum company. The shattered foundations of the Western policy are, so to say, lying about in the open for all the world to see The shattered foundations of Nasser's policy are not so easy .to. see. The shattered foundations of Nasser's policy are not so easy to observe, but the collapse has occurred all the same. The mere promotion of Arab nationalism, the mere expulsion of foreign influenc es from the Middle East, were not the real foundations of Nassers' policy. Nasser's pol icy was squarely founded on the claim to be Arab national ism's' unique, all-deciding leader. All or nothing was the rule. Other Arabs were called upon to acknowledge Nasser's unchallenged authority, or they were venomously de nounced as traitors to' the Arab nation. "I am Arab Un ion," was Nasser s version of Louis XIV's famous remark about the state. ' 'I the . western policy may - have been. . impractical from the .outset, but so was Nasser's. It was always pre dictable that if Nasser became emperor of pan-Arabia the next morning, he would start losing provinces from his em pire only a few mornings la ter. The Arab lands are too various. They are too differ entiated by local interests and habits. They could never have been successfully ruled by an Egyptian dictator without great military force at his dis posal. The Iraqi revolution , has now. returned a rude answer Chicago School Fire Toll At 91; City Prays Others Can Survive Chicago -(UPD- The death toll in Chicago's school fire climbed to 91 Friday night, hours after 70 of the victims from Our Lady of the Angels school were buried in crisp, cold December weather, Services for 12 more of the children were to be held yes terday. Three Roman Catholic nuns who died with their charges in Monday's blaze and five other children were bur ied Thursday, to Nasser s assertion, "I am Arab Union." Brig. Kassem earnestly desires the most in timate Arab cooperation, but he also insists, as he laconical ly remarked to me, that "Baghdad is the capital of Ir- aq." And while it was won derfully easy for Nasser to whack away at the old re gime in Iraq, as a parcel of traitors to Arab unity, whack ing at Kassem is quite another problem. XTAbbER has publicly ac- knowledged as much. For the first time, he has aban doned his former claim of unique leadership and author ity. For the first time, he has publicly acknowledged that all the Arab states must de velop in their own way, with in the broader framework of "Arab brotherhood." Charac teristically, he has also self righteously denied that he ev er made the now-abandoned claim anyway. .'In these circumstances, there is a chance for a wholly new start here in the Middle East. The old Western policy and the old Nasser policy, which clashed so sharply with one another, have both been defeated. The debris can therefore be cleared away. An effort can begin to work out new relationships, both between the Arab states and between the Arab states and the West. A hard-headed re-examination of the West's relations with Nasser himself is the first requirement for a sens ible new start. Another is an effort, sustained and not damp-handed and ever eager, to ease Kassem's choice in Iraq. By these means, if if if -Kassem makes the right choice, progress towards Mid dle Eastern stability and san ity is at last possible. Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Ucn .... Vl These prices effective all day Monday 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Shag Bark Cloth A dripdri loop weave dress fabric. 44 in. wide. Crease resistant. Ideal for dusters, robes and many other uses. Reg. $1.29 yd. SPECIAL - ; : : : Ladies Imported Corduroy BLAZIER JACKETS 3-butron front; fully lined, 3 pockets. 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Medford'i Bargain Center Sixth and Central Attention of the heartsick city shifted to the city's hospi tals where 12 youngsters and one nun remained on the criti cal list, and prayers were: of fered that the delayed death Friday night of Victor Jaca bellis, 9, might be the last in the overwhelming tragedy.', A solemn requiem Mass was celebrated by Chicago's Arch bishop Albert G. Meyer at a National Guard armory where 18 girls and nine boys rested in white and gold coffins. Sep arate funeral services were sung at numerous parish churches throughout the city for many of the . remaining children. Spellman Assists Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York assisted at the Mass held in the temporary "cathedral," chosen because no church in the city was large enough to hold the vic tims, their relatives and mourners. About 7,000 persons were at the armory, and another 2, 000 gathered later at the Holy Innocents Shrine of Queen of Booby Trapping Turns Out To Be Officer's Booboo Seattle, Wash. v -UPD- The King County Sheriffs office yesterday put out a cancella tion order on a bulletin ask ing officers in the Western states to watch two cars which were reported to , be booby trapped. ' Harold Wieland, chief of de tectives, said the story origi nated from a "Washington state patrol bulletin 'of May, 1956. At that time three burg lary suspects were reported to have wired their cars so a charge of dynamite would ex plode if anyone else tried to open the doors, i ' However, the case was cleared up satisfactorily more than two years ago, Wieland said. . . He explained that a success sion of errors resulted in a bulletin going out on the po lice teletype network which maicaiea we case was a cur rent one. Assuming He said a police officer from Medina, Wash., was rid ing i with a "police sergeant from nearby Bellevue. The Medina officer saw the old in formation listed on the Belle vue police board. Assuming the case was a current one, he notified the King County sher iff's office which, put the bul letin out today. . When the error was discov ered, a cancellation order was put out on the police network immediately Wieland said. ' Port of Umatilla May Face Paying 's Fees Attorney Pendleton-flJPD-The Port, of Umatilla may . have to , pay $15,000 in attorney's iees in a land condemnation case in stigated by the port. . .;. .' . An interlocutory, judgment of $15,000 was entered Friday in. circuit court here by Cir cuit Judge William M. Wells. 'Attorneys John F. Kilken ny and John H. Kottkamt of Pendleton, P. W. Mahoney of Heppner and Charles L. Pow ell were seeking the fee set by the court. They were attor neys for defendants R. W. and Elsie Richmond, owners of the land. For Development '. An original suit filed by the port commission wanted the land condemned for devel opment purposes but . Judge Wells ruled that the port was seeking to condemn land far in excess of its needs. . The Oregon supreme court reversed that decision , and sent the case back to Morrow county for a land appraisal. A jury ruled the land was worth $60,000.'The port had originally offered $56,000 for it. ' -. Not Yet Decided The commission has not yet decided whether it will pur chase the land at that price. The area is located along the Columbia river near . Coye Springs Landing. REJECTION SLIP : Rutland. Vt-IPD-After Rut land City aldermen, suggested that Rutland Town selectmen set up a committee to inves tigate annexation they receiv ed a two rjaragraoh reply. The first paragraph acknowledged receiving the suggestion. The second paragraph, read, "We feel we want no part of your proposal and refuse to appoint such a committee.';. TOUGHEST TASK Oklahoma City-nJPD-What is the hardest task a governor has? "Saying No,' " says Oklahoma's Gov. . .. Raymond Gary..- . " .... Heaven cemetery where 21 of the victims were brought, for final burial. There, as gusty winds blew bitterly, Bishop' Raymond P. Hillinger offered a final pray er over the coffins and weep ing relatives huddled together for comfort.' One bereaved father was denied the comforting release of tears. Stanley Burda, 37, had undergone an eye opera tion Monday, the same day his daughter; Beverly, 13, was killed in the fire. Doctors" had warned him that excrutiating pain and pos sible damage would accom pany any tears he might shed at the funeral, and Burda struggled to obey the warn ing. Sodliers Cry A short distance away were the newly turned graves of the three nuns and a statue of the smiling Christ surrounded by the figures of three little children. Inscribed on the base of the statue were Christ's words "Suffer the little chil dren to come unto Me and for bid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God." Mourners contained their grief during the requiem Mass, but at the close, as Na tional Guardsmen escorted the tiny coffins and families out, tears began to flow pro fusely. Three women required first aid, fathers wept openly, and several National Guardsmen were forced to leave their posts because, as their com mander put it, the combat vet erans of World War II and the Korean war "just couldn't take it." . Neuberger Urges That State Match Medical Grant Portland -4UPD- Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.), said Friday Oregon would be losing a golden opportunity to become one of the great medi cal centers of the nation if it failed to match a $1,296,000 grant from the National Insti tutes of Health. ... Neuberger told the faculty of the University of Oregon medical school that "I virtual ly pledged our honor when I told officials of NTH that our state would put up its share of these funds for . construction of a medical research building at the medical school." He said that if Oregon's government failed to fulfill its part of the bargain "we shall never have such a chance again." Neuberger said . Oregon would get the $1,296,000 out of a total federal appropria tion of only 30 million dol lars for the entire United States for medical research fa cilities. 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