CHOICE OF CABINET

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28253, 15 April 1957, Page 9

CHOICE OF CABINET

New Regime In Jordan (Rec. 9.15 pm.) AMMAN, April IS. Mr Abdul Halim Nimr, the former Interior and Defence Minister, ended Jordan’s cabinet crisis tonight by forming a new government at the request of King Huasein. King Hussein charged Mr Nimr with,, the task of forming a new government after the failure first of Dr. Hussein Fakhrl Khalidi. and of Said Mufti, who is President of the Senate, to do so Mr Nimr selected his ministers from the out-going administration of Mr Suleiman Nabulsi who resigned as Prime Minister three days ago. Most of these ministers are national socialists. Earlier today students demonstrated in the main streets in Amman against the Eisenhower doctrine and demanded a national government

They shouted slogans opposing the Richards mission to explain the Eisenhower doctrine, and called for Jordan to keep her independence. Moscow Radio said today that Mr Nabulsi had been dismissed as Prime Minister of Jordan because he had pledged himself to- fight imperialism everywhere in the world.

As a result of this, the radio said, the United States ‘'began to exert economic pressure upon Jordan. She withheld her offers of aid. Foreign companies began to cut down their activities. "The United States is placing her hopes on disuniting the Arabs and establishing an American sphere of influence in the midst of the Arab world which would work to isolate Egypt anil foster intrigues and conspiracies against Syria,” said Moscow Radio.