Word: emirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slim 12 then, a desert torch singer fresh from Syria's Jebel Druse country. But Ama's family frowned on such shamelessness ; they bustled her into marriage with Cousin Emir Hassan, chief of the Druses...
...year Amal lived in pampered boredom in a Syrian mountain villa. Then Cairo's footlights called irresistibly. She divorced the Emir, hurried to Egypt, married a film director, divorced him within a year. By that time she had a new career: she was well on the way to be coming the Arabic world's Hedy Lamarr...
Another little Arab country-British-mandated Trans-Jordan, pop. 300,000-recently got restive, asked Britain to grant full sovereignty. Trans-Jordan's handsome, blueblooded Emir Abdullah had a telling point: with Britain's covert encouragement, neighboring Syria and Lebanon had lately wrested promises of sovereignty from France...
Last week came Britain's answer: No, until after the war, when the mandating power, the League of Nations or its successor, could give consent. Trans-Jordan's Cabinet resigned in a huff, but a friendly talk between the Emir and Sir Harold MacMichael, British High Commissioner of Palestine, patched up the unpleasantness...
Trans-Jordan's petition was another sign of rising Arab nationalism. Full sovereignty would raise Emir Abdullah to the rank of King, allow Trans-Jordan to join the nebulous but much-discussed union of Arab states. Britain prefers to postpone such problems until she can concentrate on her vital Middle Eastern sphere...