Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Illah, three pairs of royal swans.* Then angry Iraqis in Bagdad rejected the treaty (TIME, Feb. 2) and forced their chief negotiator, Prime Minister Saleh Jabr, to flee to Trans-Jordan scrunched down in the back seat of his car with bullets whistling after. No one remembered to call off the shipment of swans...
Shrewd little King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan likes to shoot and hunt, compose delicate Arabic poetry, recite from the Koran, and play chess. He also aspires to enlarge his kingdom. Last week, fingering a set of exquisitely carved chess pieces in his winter palace at Shouneh, a few miles east of the River Jordan, he told a TIME correspondent: "Politics is like chess: you cannot rush your pawns across enemy territory, but must seek favorable openings...
...must hold strategic positions in Palestine," said Abdullah last week. "These are indispensable to Trans-Jordan, both from military and economic points of view. I cannot give up Mediterranean ports in Palestine. I have rights and claims in Palestine without which Trans-Jordan cannot live...
...week's end, Abdullah's emissaries and the British had concluded a treaty draft which, the British hoped, would keep Abdullah happy. Its terms promised to continue his military subsidy, cut down (on paper) British rights to use Trans-Jordan as a military base. But the British, fearing a repetition of the painful episode when Iraqi mobs had forced the Iraq government to reject a similar treaty after it had been signed and announced in London, were taking no chances this time. Abdullah's delegation took back only "fairly definite proposals," not a signed treaty. Said...
...general's rank and the title Pasha (equivalent of "lord") were bestowed by Abdullah. His rank in the British army when he became commander of the Arab Legion (1939): acting major. His permanent British rank: captain in the officers' reserve. His temporary "local" British rank in Trans-Jordan: acting brigadier...