The Tiger

broadcasts to the nearly four million Kurds who straddle Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Soviet Transcaucasia, revives agitation for “Kurdish rights” and an “independent Kurdistan.”

Cairo. Radio “Voice of the Arabs”—run by Nasser with Soviet guidance and inspiration—steps up the ferocity of its anti-American broadcasts after two relatively moderate months. President Eisenhower is denounced as “half-witted,” “criminal,” “degenerate.” Preventive action in Jordan is called for, to forestall an alleged Israeli plan to attack the Jordan River Valley after the British troops leave.

broadcasts to the nearly four million Kurds who straddle Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Soviet Transcaucasia, revives agitation for “Kurdish rights” and an “independent Kurdistan.”

Cairo. Radio “Voice of the Arabs”—run by Nasser with Soviet guidance and inspiration—steps up the ferocity of its anti-American broadcasts after two relatively moderate months. President Eisenhower is denounced as “half-witted,” “criminal,” “degenerate.” Preventive action in Jordan is called for, to forestall an alleged Israeli plan to attack the Jordan River Valley after the British troops leave.