Word: glubb
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...camel inherits its basic temper." I have spent many years in Spanish Morocco, only to learn to respect the Arab temper. The wounds of the Balfour Declaration cannot be forgotten, and the Arabs would attempt to throw the Jews of Israel into the sea. And if Lieut. General Glubb was surprised at King Hussein's orders, I think he is a very small...
...Prime Minister said: "None of us know the reason." But his question, according to Glubb, was: "Can you leave Immediately?" Glubb asked what he meant by immediately. The Premier's answer: "Say at 4 o'clock this afternoon. We will give you an airplane." Glubb balked at that. "No, sir," he said. "I have lived here for 26 years, and I cannot leave at two hours' notice." The Premier suggested: "You can leave your wife behind." They compromised on 7 a.m. the next...
...People's Choice. By sacking Glubb, Hussein made himself King before his subjects in fact as well as in title. Overnight he was the hero of the Palestinians. Newspapers hailed him as "the new Sala-din." When he toured the refugee centers, frenzied crowds tore off his red-checkered headdress and bore him through the streets shouting: "Long live Hussein-with his sword we will go to war!" Legionnaires shouted: "Back to Palestine!" "It was the first time in the history of the Hashemite family that one of them stood up to the British," said a former Hussein critic...
...hastily assured the British that he had expelled Glubb not from any animus against Britain but because Glubb had become a liability both to Britain and himself. Pointing to his cheering subjects, he asked: "Don't you think the spirit of the crowds might have been quite different if we had not dismissed Glubb...
...Since Glubb's firing, the young King has shown considerable nimbleness. He dexterously avoided the bear hug embrace extended by Nasser, Saudi Arabia and Syria, who offered to replace the British subsidy. There is no question that for the moment Hussein is in charge. In his negotiations with the British, he did not even bother to keep Prime Minister Rifai informed. He sent Major General Radi Innab (whom he installed as Legion commander to replace Glubb) to negotiate an agreement with Syria to regard their borders with Israel as "one military frontier" in case of Israeli attack. Last week...