The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 116)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 116)

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Movement, the Arab Nationalists whose objectives include
the overturning of the existing order in the Arab states
cannot have the luxury of convening their leaders under one
roof before the watching eyes of the security police in
Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria or any Arab state for that matter .24
This may be a good justification for not con‘‘ening a
Regional Conference in a state where the crack down on the
leadership of the Movement might be suicidal to the organiza-
tion, but it is certainly challenged by many leaders in the
second level of the hierarchy, (i.e., the Section), who are
either in disagreement with the Command of the Region on
certain issues or who aspire to participate in the proceedings
of a higher organ of the Movement. These "second-class"
leaders accept the elite's justification only as partially
true; they claim that many members of the Command of the
Region have become authoritarian in character and hence are
not prepared to be questioned by those who are below them in
15 This is a very serious charge which is
the hierarchy.
impossible to verify for.lack of information. The author
failed to convince more than a few leaders to elaborate on
this problem. However, it is the author's feeling that one
of the reasons for the leaders' failure to call for Regional
Conferences is the unwillingness on the part of the leaders
14,-atement by anonymous, personal interview,
November 9, 1968.
15 pased on personal interviews with a number of ANM
members in Iraq, November 5, 6 and 7, 1968.

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party

تاريخ

1971-02-07

المنشئ

Basil R. Al-Kubaisi

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