Word: abdullah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the first, ambitious King Abdullah of Jordan had no intention of giving up the large chunk of eastern Palestine which his Arab Legion seized during the war with Israel. A few days after his cease-fire agreement with Israel in 1949, the King set up a civil administration for all of Palestine under his control, an area which includes the Old City of Jerusalem. Later he admitted Palestinian Arabs to his cabinet, then allowed the people of eastern Palestine to vote in Jordan's elections last April 11. Last week the King prodded his Parliament into formally unifying...
...British government, which subsidizes Abdullah's army, promptly gave public blessing to the annexation. The blessing was qualified only by a dutiful reminder that control of Jerusalem was supposed to be a matter for final decision by the United Nations. At the same time Britain announced her decision to grant full recognition to Israel, whose government had taken a live & let live attitude toward Abdullah...
...King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan turned out to be the only ruler with an effective army and the only one who might have been strong enough to carry out the Arab League's threats. But he preferred to work towards the consolidation of Arab Palestine and Trans-Jordan under his "Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan," and now thinks he can profit more from a peace agreement with Israel than from...