Word: arab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Might & Rights. But those who have played chess with him know that Abdullah, who plays well, likes swift moves, gets bored if the game lasts too long. What moves, wondered rival Arab leaders, was the wily brain planning to make in neighboring Palestine? Traditionally the bad boy of Arab politicians, Abdullah has never made any secret of his ambition to expand his holdings, at the expense of Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, or of all four of those states...
...Middle East chess game, he has a powerful piece-a well-trained, wellarmed, British-led army, the 10,000-strong Arab Legion, most efficient Arab fighting force in the Middle East. In a bold move he might use the Legion (already two-thirds of it is in Palestine to help the British keep order) to seize chunks, or all, of Palestine for himself...
...London, where Abdullah's Prime Minister and other emissaries last week were talking over a revised treaty of alliance with Britain, Abdullah's British subsidizers thought Abdullah would be more cautious. Said one, when asked whether Abdullah might try to seize Palestine over the protests of other Arab leaders: "We honestly don't believe he will be so silly...
...firm rein on the impetuous Abdullah. His proud army depends on a yearly British subsidy of $8,000,000, British arms and supplies, and 48 British officers who advise and command it. If British support were withdrawn, Abdullah knows that his Legion would quickly deteriorate into just another ragged Arab band...
Lice & Rice. Abdullah's military adviser, the man on whom the British most count to keep their useful Arab ally efficient but tractable, was also in London last week-Major General* John Bagot Glubb ("Glubb Pasha"), M.C., D.S.O., Order of El-Istiqlal (Independence), Order of El-Nahdhah (Renaissance...