Figurehead?
Photograph
Figurehead?
Baghdad Battles Reds
1963
Gelatin silver print
Image: 8 13/16 × 4 13/16 in. (22.4 × 12.2 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0489
Inscriptions Type printed with negative L: (Iraq) 2/63 19) FIGUREHEAD? Colonel Abdul Salam Aref heads Iraq's new government. But the real power \ is thought to be in the National Council of the Revolutionary Command, whose membership remains a dark \ secret. The Baathist Socialist Party is another key element in the revolt. Credit: Ian Berry \ © 1963 MAGNUM Photos
