Word: aqaba
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...July 1, a 716-ton freighter bound through the Red Sea on legitimate business for the port of Aqaba, Jordan, and proceeding in international waters, was stopped by a warning shot from a corvette. An armed party "from the corvette boarded the freighter, locked her crew below decks for 13 hours, looted the ship's stores and smashed its radio. The Foreign Secretary of the affronted nation sat on the story for ten days while he nervously checked and rechecked accounts of the incident. When the Foreign Secretary finally protested this violation of his nation's rights...
...Romans some 40 years later). The Arabs would get an enclave around Jaffa; the rest of their share would be mostly hilly pastureland. The British would hold on to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, and to the barren triangle from Beersheba south to the strategic base of Aqaba...
...fourth Army, of perhaps 100,000 British, Colonial and Arab soldiers. They are strung out along the pipelines from Kirkuk to Haifa and Tripoli and from Mosul to Alexandretta, guarding the oil that fuels the Allies' eastern Mediterranean naval forces. Their assemblage of air power headquartered at Aqaba (on the eastern finger-tip of the Red Sea), has auxiliary fighting bases scattered far up into Iraq...
...Lawrence. No Lawrence-worshipper, Mr. Antonius says that the famed colonel's Arabic was far from perfect, would have deceived no one in Arabia. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom is full of misunderstandings, defects, errors. The Lawrence account of his almost singlehanded capture of Aqaba, Mr. Antonius suggests, is bragging. Auda Abu Tayeh, ally of Feisal, planned the attack and, with Feisal's approval, executed it, independent of outside help. The Lawrence chronicle of British-Arab negotiations is "confused and chronologically impossible," his understanding of the forces in the background of the Arab revolt "palpably defective...
...maritime history, antiquarians have long been convinced that King Solomon in his years of splendor had a port on the Red Sea, but they did not know where it was. Last week Dr. Millar Burrows of Yale announced that the port had been found by explorations and excavations near Aqaba. The finder is Dr. Nelson Glueck, heading an expedition of the American School for Oriental Research. Aqaba is a town encircled by towering granite hills on a narrow gulf at the Red Sea's northern end. During the War it was captured from the Turks by Arabian forces under...