Word: emir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bursts of gunfire sent herds of scrawny goats scampering along the rocky hillsides. Amman, dusty mountain capital of mountainous Trans-Jordan, last week woke out of its normal torpor to its most exciting holiday in a quarter of a century. Stocky (5 ft. 5 in.) Emir Abdullah was home from London with a British treaty recognizing Trans-Jordan (area 30,000 sq. mi.; pop. about 300,000) as a sovereign and independent state...
Rarely had a treaty been so quickly proposed, prepared and signed. At UNO's London meeting, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin had announced Britain's intention to give up its League of Nations mandate for Trans-Jordan. The following week King George invited Emir Abdullah to London. Within a month the negotiations had been completed. They left Trans-Jordan still tied to Britain by a fairly strong military and economic rope. Trans-Jordan was to provide facilities for the training and movement of British troops, and her communications were to be developed with British money and in consultation with...
Part-Time Job. In spite of the strings attached, Emir Abdullah might feel that a lifetime of loyalty to Britain had at last been rewarded. As a young delegate to the Ottoman Parliament, he had urged his father Hussein, Sherif of Mecca, to team with the British in an Arab revolt against Ottoman overlordship. In World War I (in return for a promise of Arab independence) Abdullah fought against the Turks, side by side with Colonel Lawrence...
...Britain was ready to put her mandates of Tanganyika, Togoland and the Cameroons under UNO trusteeship. There were still longer cheers, led by the sheiks of Saudi Arabia, when he promised early independence to Trans-Jordan, whose Indiana-sized expanse includes mud, lifeless desert and the Dead Sea. The Emir Abdullah was at once invited to London to implement the deal...
...piano. The warm, flower-scented room filled with Franklin Roosevelt's family and friends, the top men of the U.S., representatives of the foreign world-the new President, Harry Truman, the cabinet, Britain's Anthony Eden, Russia's Andrei Gromyko, King Ibn Saud's son Emir Faisal, stately in an Arab burnoose. The pianist struck a chord, the mourners stood to sing the hymn, "Eternal Father, Strong to Save...