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...This Worry. Last week he seemed sobered by his new sense of power, the next moment as youthfully impulsive as the Harrow schoolboy he once was. He spent one typical morning gravely conferring on affairs of state in his palace office, then suddenly ordered his private de Havilland plane made ready, zipped out to the airport in his Lincoln, screeched to a halt, jumped out and asked a saluting R.A.F. officer. "O.K. if I go to Jerusalem...
...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, at Harrow and Sandhurst) had foresworn the Baghdad pact and some of the Arab Legionnaires had refused to fight against...
Voting with Stones. Jordan's smiling young Harrow-educated Hashemite King, the 20-year-old Hussein, needed help. Faced with overwhelming opposition to the King's attempt to join the anti-Communist Baghdad pact, the palace politicians tried to call off the spring balloting which the King had hastily promised in the midst of last month's rioting...
Britain's General Sir Gerald Templer, an able but not always tactful man, offered to increase Britain's economic and military aid if only Jordan would sign. When he tried to bulldoze Jordan's Premier, the Premier resigned (TIME, Dec. 26). Jordan's young, Harrow-educated King Hussein quickly appointed a new government to accept Templer's proposals, but already agitators were stirring. Ambitious King Saud of Saudi Arabia maintains scores of agents provacateurs to promote his influence in Jordan; Communists, though small in number, know how to guide mobs...
Templer's diplomacy worked well enough to win over some of Jordan's leaders, including 20-year-old (Harrow, '51-'52) King Hussein. Last week Premier Said el Mufti and four Cabinet members who opposed the pact resigned, and the King promptly appointed a new Cabinet headed by a young (36) lawyer, Hazza el Majali. The new government was ready to accept Templer's package proposals, but first it had to survive a tough test of its authority, mainly among the country's half million destitute Arab refugees from Israel, who are easily inflamed...