Word: glubb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your comment on Jordan gave a onesided impression of the position. British policies are both unfair and narrow-minded from the Arab point of view. Glubb's sacking has been greatly overpublicized...
...Glubb Pasha must have had his head buried in the Middle East sands for 25 years if his dismissal from the Arab Legion came as a shock to him. I've been in the Middle East only four years, and it came as no surprise...
...summary dismissal of Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb by Jordan's King Hussein, the rioting on Cyprus, the general state of things on the Mediterranean rim, seemed to have aroused Britain to its suddenly perilous position in the Middle East. Reports of Egyptian officers training in Poland, of heavy shipments of Soviet arms brought renewed doubts that the stubbornly held policy of declining an arms race was serving its purpose. With Communist arms, Premier Abdel Gamal Nasser's vaunted dream of creating an Arab empire to thrust the West from the Middle East and North Africa as well...
Words as Weapons. The principal weapons of this vengeful vendetta are words. "Britain," writes Glubb, "is being driven from the Middle East by words-words to which, with British impassivity, she refuses to reply . . . The same bitter diatribes and violent slogans are poured out [by the Egyptian radio] day after day, hour after hour, and there is no reply, no response, no counter-propaganda. When a foreign radio said that British troops were bayoneting babies, English people merely laughed and said, 'How ridiculous.' But millions of [Arab] listeners believed it... In the Middle East today, the wireless...
Though Feisal arrived in the company of Iraqi Premier Nuri es-Said, Hussein flew to the rendezvous (piloting his de Havilland Dove himself) without his Prime Minister. Having successfully sacked Glubb Pasha, symbol of Britain's long Jordanian dominance, Hussein seemed to be savoring his independence. He had turned down the invitation to join Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria in their Arab "neutral" bloc, and he had already opened negotiations with the British on terms that seemed likely to assure for the young king the continuing of London's $25 million yearly subsidy, and the presence...