Word: emir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe I have missed an issue of TIME from cover to cover since it first appeared. This issue is something. You hit the tops I think. Yes, I have heard about that exciting memo you sent to the staff, how you had to make waste paper out of the Emir and the wonderful follow-up of last week's Zamzam with this week's Robin Moor...
...Trans-Jordan pro-British Emir Abdullah was reported shot and badly wounded by his son just as he was about to march into Iraq to help the British...
...rushed to Vichy, lunched with Admiral Darlan and assured the new boss that he was no foe of "collaboration." After the luncheon a communique announced that France would defend "any part of her Empire alone." Since Great Britain has forces in Palestine on Syria's frontier, and since Emir Abdullah of neighboring Trans-Jordan came out for Britain last week (see p. 27), this warning seemed directed at Great Britain...
Abdullah-ibn-Husein, Emir of Trans-Jordan, is a short, plump, jovial fighting man who comes from a long line of noble fighting men. His father was Husein-ibn-Ali, onetime King of Hejaz, and he traces his ancestry in the male line straight back to the son of the daughter of Mohammed. He likes to drive in swift motorcars, breed fancy camels and play chess all night...
...Turkish Cabinet members refused a German invitation to see the newsreel Victory in the West and civilians were ordered evacuated from Istanbul. To back up Turkey with what they hope will develop into a pan-Arab front, the British used as their mouthpiece the reliable Emir of Trans-Jordan, who likes the new Turkey as much as he disliked the old Ottoman Empire. From his winter camp at Eshuneh, Abdullah sat down to the international chessboard and proclaimed to the world...