Word: glubb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain suffered its worst humiliation in years when Jordan's young King Hussein sacked the famed Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb and sent him out of the country under armed guard. In the golden years when Britain's political writ ran clear and strong through all the ancient kingdoms from Egypt to Iran, Britain created Jordan. Over the years Britain protected the new Arab nation, supported it, gave it an army that was the Arab world's finest. Britain educated its young King, helped maintain him on his throne as it had his grandfather before...
...what foreign ministers now do when they get in a jam: hop a plane. Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, on his way to Pakistan for a meeting of the SEATO council, had planned a swing through the Middle East to shore up Britain's wobbly prestige. Glubb's ejection caught him in Cairo in the awkward moment of conferring with Egypt's triumphant Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser, who has been energetically egging King Hussein on. Crowed Egypt's Minister of State: "We Arabs are no more a merchandise to be bought and sold...
...stop on the tarmac of Nicosia airfield on Britain's island of Cyprus, and from it wearily stepped a small, stooped, grey man in a rumpled brown pin-stripe suit. The man in mufti, scarcely able to hold back his tears, was Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb, 58, for more than a quarter of a century one of the most potent and famous figures of British imperial power in the Middle East. Last week, suddenly and savagely, the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan sacked and shipped off the desert proconsul who had made its army-the British-equipped Arab Legion...
...desert campaigns against the Turks. Abdullah ruled his arid waste spaces as a Bedouin black-tent state, with three courtiers alternating as Premier at the royal pleasure, and a British proconsul in the Lawrence-of-Arabia tradition commanding the British-equipped Arab Legion. Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb Pasha-known affectionately by his Bedouin warriors as Abu Huneik (Father of the Little Jaw), in honor of a bullet wound incurred in World War I fighting-quoted the Arab classics, read the lesson Sundays at the Anglican chapel in Amman, and used Britain's $24 million-a-year subsidy...
...gunning to death a 50-year-old watchman in Kissalon. Two days later, Jordan reported that in the dead of night Israeli troops hit Nahalin, just across the border from Kissalon, with machine guns, mines and grenades. While local national guardsmen stood off the attackers, Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb's Arab Legion raced to the rescue. Outnumbered, the Israelis fought their way three miles back to the border, carrying dead and wounded with them. Jordan's casualties: nine dead, including one woman...