Word: glubb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young King of Jordan won a wild popularity in the streets by unceremoniously expelling Glubb Pasha, the British commander of his armed forces. But had he gratified or merely whetted the appetite...
...three leaders were not yet to have their way in Jordan. The 20-year-old King Hussein had become, overnight, a national hero by expelling Glubb. But when the three potentates in Cairo invited Hussein to accept their financial aid in place of the $25 million annual subsidy Britain has been paying Jordan, Hussein declined to give up his treaty and his financial ties with London. Why should he trade the dependability of the British Exchequer for bondage to the Saudi royal family, blood enemies of his Hashemite clan? He seemed genuinely shocked by the uproar in Britain over...
...King met with the Cabinet, also with British Ambassador Charles Duke. Reportedly under guard of 16 tanks, Glubb, his wife, son and adopted Arab daughter were packed off to the airport. Minutes later King Hussein went on the radio to deliver a brief eulogy of the Legion. As soon as he finished speaking, an announcer read a royal irada (decree) dismissing Glubb, two British aides and three senior Arab officers, and designating Major General Radi Innab as the Legion's new commander...
After Injury, Insult. By week's end British Foreign Office men were beginning to minimize Glubb's dismissal, and to say that Jordan was still bound to Britain by a 20-year treaty of alliance. Glubb, arriving in London, went along with their line, but acknowledged that he feared for the future of the Legion's remaining 60 British officers. The British said that Hussein had sent word that he still wanted to be friends, just as he had also sent a courier with an autographed photograph of himself to the departing Glubb. But the public expulsion...
Last week's events in Jordan constituted a crushing defeat for the British and a setback for the whole Western position in the area. Israel, which used to denounce Glubb Pasha, now recognized him as a moderating force among the Arabs, and took his dismissal as a sign that the neighbor country may disintegrate and that Egypt may install a puppet regime among the diehard Palestinian refugees west of the Jordan...