Word: glubbs
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...October, Sir Anthony I Eden infuriated the Israelis by suggesting Va peace based on the 1947 partition plan, which would cost Israel all the territory it won later by beating the Arabs. Jordan was the battleground of Britain's contest with Nasser. Jordan had kicked out Britain's Glubb Pasha, but still needed its $33-million-a-year subsidy from Britain. At London's urging, Iraq (Britain's only ally in the Arab world) offered Jordan military aid. But Iraq's offer came down to two planeloads of small arms; Nasser topped that by sending five Vampire jets...
Picking the Bones. Jordan has been racked by political instability ever since her anti-Baghdad Pact riots of 1955 and the expulsion of Britain's famed Soldier Glubb Pasha last March. "Jordan," said one Western observer not long ago, "is dying, and there are three vultures waiting to pick her bones." Hovering closest of all was Israel, which four times in the last month has sent regular army units smashing into Jordan on bloody "retaliatory raids" whose only logical purpose seemed to be to hasten Jordan's disintegration...
...admitted later, "we weren't through yet." At that time, Israeli forces sent to block off reinforcements ran into a tough fight five miles east on the Samaritan road. For their first big thrust since 1949, the Arab Legion (rechristened the Jordanian army since King Hussein threw out Glubb...
...reformist leader, Abdul Rahman Bakir−who promptly took refuge in Nasser's Cairo. The British Foreign Office, however, disturbed by Egypt's growing influence in Bahrein and anxious to avoid another blow to British prestige like Jordan's unseemly ouster of Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb (TIME, March 12), pressured Belgrave to get out while the getting was good. Last week, in a brief dispatch from "our own correspondent in Bahrein," the London Times reported that "the Sheik of Bahrein has with reluctance accepted the resignation of Sir Charles Belgrave, his adviser for over 30 years...
...devoted his life, some conceded that "Belgrave was a good man and did much for Bahrein," and then hastened to add "The world has changed, and today everyone wants independence." One Egyptian put it more drastically: "Belgrave was one of those so-called Arab experts. Just as Glubb went, so he's gone, and so will go all of them. Nobody's impressed any more with Englishmen who can recite the Koran. The hell with them...