Word: glubb
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...division of Palestine and the birth of Israel flooded Jordan with hard-mouthed urban refugees who knew nothing of desert chivalry and saw in Glubb Pasha only a treasonous foreigner who had declined to order his troops to charge straight across Israel. By last fall, when Britain tried to rush its ally Jordan into the anti-Communist Baghdad pact, the wildest forces of Arab nationalism, urged on by Egyptian propaganda and Saudi-Arabian gold, flowed through the little land. Glubb's Legion put down the rioters but only after young (20) King Hussein (who was schooled, like Winston Churchill...
Goodbye with Tanks. Within the Legion a group of anti-British nationalists formed, similar to the "Free Officers" clique that overthrew Egypt's King Farouk. They found allies against Glubb in Premier Rifai and in Queen Mother Zaine, who has been collecting a $280,000 annual subsidy from Saudi Arabia's King Saud to work against the British position. Last week, with nationalist sentiment running high, the officers forced the young King to choose between General Glubb and his own throne...
...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...