Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...D.S.O. was awarded last week to a legend. In flesh the legend is Major John Bagot Glubb, Commander of the Arab Legion in Trans-Jordan...
Small, shy, stooped like a tired schoolmaster, Glubb Bey (his Arab title) graduated first in his class from Woolwich Royal Military Academy. Son of a major general, he knew his war business, went to France in World War I as a sapper. There he received a chin wound which later inspired Arabs to nickname him Abu Huneik (Man with the Small Jaw). In 1920 he was sent to Mesopotamia; he has remained there, except for a few short trips, ever since. Before World War II, if he was not living quietly with his wife in a native-style house...
...with the Arab Legion has been peacemaking. After learning Arabic so that he spoke it more fluently than the late great T. E. Lawrence, in 1930 he organized the Desert Patrol, part of Lieut. Colonel Frederick G. Peake's Arab Legion...
...Still being paged by the British was explosion-whiskered Haj Amin El-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. They want to see him about some Arab riots in Palestine and a revolt in Iraq last spring. The Russians were trying to trace a character known as Roman Gamotta, believed to be a German onetime naval officer who cannot let sleepy Arabs lie. That neither could be found did not add to the royal boots-man's popularity with the Allies...
...Pillaging the Iranian countryside were mobs of Kurds, as warlike as the royal bootsman himself and the finest-physiqued men in the Middle East. The Shah had imported them in large numbers to work on the roads. Says an Arab proverb: There are three plagues in the world-the Kurd, the rat and the locust...