Word: glubb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hussein, who in 1956 had unceremoniously booted out the Arab Legion's famed English commander, Lieut. General Glubb Pasha, and ended the British $25 million-a-year subsidy to Jordan in an unsuccessful attempt to compromise with Nasser, turned now to Britain for help. Two days after the U.S. Marine landings in Lebanon, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told the House of Commons of Hussein's urgent message: "Jordan is faced with an imminent attempt by the United Arab Republic to create internal disorder and to overthrow the present regime." According to British intelligence, said Macmillan, Hussein...
...Jordan had annexed after the 1948 war, outnumbered the original Bedouins of King Hussein two to one. When Nasser called to them, they erupted into the streets, hurling stones at U.S. consulates, attacking U.N. warehouses, battling police. Last year Nasser-incited riots forced Hussein to dismiss Britain's Glubb Pasha, and at the sprawling refugee camp at Aqabat Jabr (pop. 32,000), some 100 were killed...
...home leave in England. So was Britain's top political resident in the Persian Gulf, Sir Bernard Burrows. That left command of the Sultan's army to Major Pat Gray, one of the soldierly Britons who were tossed out of Jordan's Arab Legion along with Glubb Pasha. In response to the hillmen's attack, Major Gray sent several truckloads of troops up to reinforce the garrison, but they were stopped by mines-the first land mines ever used in battle in the Sultanate. At this point the Sultan consulted his Foreign Minister, a hulking Scot...
...grandfather Abdullah "one Sunday afternoon in Jerusalem," as he later said. Churchill was repaying Abdullah's fighting services to Britain in Lawrence of Arabia's desert campaign (another hunk-Mesopotamia, now Iraq-was given to Abdullah's brother Feisal). Thenceforth, while Britain's Glubb Pasha built the British-equipped Arab Legion into Islam's sprucest fighting force, Abdullah ruled the sandy wastes as a Bedouin black-tent state...
...Syrian exile. Nabulsi and other leading leftist politicians were placed under house arrest. The palace announced that a "vile attempt" to take over the army had been frustrated, and Major General Ali el Hayari, 38, one of the top Arab Legion commanders in the days of the British Glubb Pasha, and a strong supporter of the King, had taken over as Jordan's new army chief...