Word: glubb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortunately, there were a few cool-headed men on both sides. One was Pre mier Sharett, who, when he was Foreign Minister, attacked Ben-Gurion for condoning the Kibya massacre (TIME, Oct. 26). Another was Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb, British commander of Jordan's Arab Legion. Glubb offered two Bedouin trackers to assist the blood hounds, and Sharett accepted them. The joint posse worked together for two days until the murderers' spoor petered out in sun-baked rock two miles from Jordan...
Arab crowds in Amman, Nablus and Old Jerusalem cried for arms to "avenge ourselves." Jordan begged her fellow Arab League states for troops, planes and tanks. John Bagot Glubb, British commander of Jordan's crack 15,000-man Arab Legion, the strongest force in the Arab world, announced a shoot-on-sight order directed at any Israeli cau^it in Jordan. But further he would not go, though Jordanian Deputies demanded retaliation. Said Glubb: "The Jews of Israel must be as well aware as anyone else who knows the Arab world that every one of the survivors of such...
...Arab Legion cannon and rolled off the surrounding hillsides, reverberating through Amman. A twin-engined De Havilland Dove rolled to a stop, and out stepped 43-year-old King Talal, looking worn and taut. He mumbled a few words, which no one could understand, to Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb Pasha, the powerful Briton who commands Talal's Arab Legion, and to Premier Tewfik Pasha Abul Huda, who kissed him on both cheeks...
Talal, who wanted to rule like a real King, never had a chance: he lacked his father's guile and dynamism. When he ordered the Arab Legion to retaliate against punitive Israeli attacks, he found that he could not even command his army. John Glubb Pasha, the British commander, countermanded his order. Talal's brother, Prince Naif, is living in neighboring Beirut, and plotting with dissident Jordanians to take the throne. Iraq, ruled by the Hashemite family to which Talal belongs, also has designs on his kingdom...
...British head of the Arab Legion, Glubb Pasha...