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...financial ties with London. Why should he trade the dependability of the British Exchequer for bondage to the Saudi royal family, blood enemies of his Hashemite clan? He seemed genuinely shocked by the uproar in Britain over the removal of Glubb, and sent personal word to Anthony Eden asking him to countermand the order withdrawing 15 of the Arab Legion's remaining British officers...
...news shocked London. Prime Minister Eden summoned his principal ministers to emergency consultations on this latest blow to Britain's vanishing prestige in the Middle East. The Times labeled Jordan's act "the most sinister event which has occurred in the Middle East since the Egyptian purchase of arms from the Communists." Mourned the Tory Daily Telegraph: "General Glubb represents the last of that group of British individuals including T. E. Lawrence to whom Arab countries of the Middle East owe an incalculable debt...
After making a careful reappraisal of Soviet war potential, Sir Anthony Eden's military advisers came to a gloomy conclusion. They have now revised from ten years to five their estimate of the time it will take before Russian industrial strength reaches the point where the Communists may again be tempted to violent global conquest. Last week the Commons debated the government's preparations for war-old-style or nuclear#151; and found the country's defense ragged...
...beheld," wrote Christopher Columbus when he discovered the Caribbean island of Jamaica in 1494. This winter 100,000 sun-seeking North American tourists are discovering Jamaica and echoing Columbus. The lush British colony, only three hours by air from Miami, is the Temperate Zone dweller's vision of Eden: white sand beaches and an emerald surf, blue mountains and waterfalls in the distance, a green landscape of palms, banana and sugar cane, splashed with gaudy contrasts of scarlet poinciana blooms, yellow and coral bougainvillaea vines and fragrant orchards of mangoes, limes and tangerines...
...cannot go on like this," warned the Tory Daily Mail. "Ordinary men and women . . . are accusing the government of doing nothing," said the Tory Daily Sketch. Last week the government of Prime Minister Anthony Eden got even more pointed reminders of Britain's increasing dissatisfaction. In three by-elections for "safe" Conservative seats, the Tory percentage of the vote dropped by a surprising...