Premier Kassem of Iraq resumed his propaganda campaign against Jordan today with a demand that King Hussein give up the portion of Palestine he absorbed after the 1948 United Nations partition decision.
The Premier, in a speech broadcast by Radio Baghdad, called Jordan the “perfidious stepchild of imperialism” and called on Jordan to yield the “confiscated” parts of Palestine and make them the nucleus of a “new state.”
In his denunciation, the Premier repeated a charge he made earlier this month that Palestine was carved up by Jordan, Egypt and Israel. He also said that “11 years have passed since the Palestine events and the sons of Palestine still remain to this very moment expelled and refugees.”
The Premier said that the refugees had been “expelled from their homes as a result of aggression against their country by other robbers.” He added that “the problem of Palestine will be solved only through the formation of a State of Palestine, including all of its robbed parts.”
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