Word: abdullah
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First, the U.S. Navy dropped in. Then came the wily Abdullah, King of Hashimite Jordan...
Moorish King. Jordan's Abdullah arrived at La Coruña, a few miles down the coast from El Ferrol, before the Americans left. Disgruntled because his British masters had put him aboard an ordinary passenger steamer, the Highland Brigade, the Hashimite sovereign had his pride restored when Host Franco stopped the British steamer in the harbor and provided a Spanish naval launch for his Arab guest to come ashore in regal style...
Even a softhearted dictator, however, has his enemies. Two of Zaim's are Nuri Said, Premier of Iraq, and King Abdullah of Jordan. Both have long cast covetous eyes on Syria as a desirable part of their respective schemes for an Arab federation. Zaim himself favors a revitalized Arab League, but would prefer to boss it himself. With the Palestine war over, his chances of doing just that seemed to be looking...
...Bevin and Winston Churchill; France's Jacques Duclos and Charles de Gaulle; Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, China's Mao Tse-tung, Spain's Francisco Franco, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, India's Jawaharlal Nehru, Israel's Chaim Weizmann, Jordan's King Abdullah, South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts, Argentina's Juan Perón, and Pope Pius...
...staff. First rumors were that Zaim was an ardent nationalist, who would break off truce negotiations with Israel, cancel the Trans-Arabian Pipeline Co.'s rights to build a pipeline through Syria (TIME, Sept. 15, 1947), and throw in his lot with Trans-jordan's King Abdullah, whose avowed hope it is to build a "Greater Syria." Zaim denied any such wild intentions. His coup, he said, had "no foreign implications...