Word: dullah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Syria (whence he was chased by the French), Abdullah in Trans-Jordan, which was set up by the British as a link between Egypt and Iraq and a potential threat to French-mandated Syria. Through the process of raiding his treasury and letting the British bail him out, Ab dullah presently found himself completely under the thumb of Great Britain. Last week the British used Abdullah and his kingdom for the purpose they had fore seen long ago: as a nucleus for an Arab front against the Axis and as a threat to French-held Syria...