Word: jordania
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...objection to compromise, which Wald so gliby suggests as the only possible solution, from the Zionists' point of view, is that Palestine has already been partitioned. Trans-Jordania has been separated from it, making a small country into a minute one. It is this minute land that many people today propose to further divide. Moreover, all the surrounding countries are almost completely Arab states. Large numbers of these Arabs have migrated into Palestine in order to take advantage of the facilities for business, sanitation, medical care, education, and agriculture of previously desert land which the Zionists have made possible...
...Emir of Trans-Jordania issued a public statement: "The Senusi (secret Moslem sect) are the rightful overlords of Libya by virtue of ancestral ties and religious leadership. We Arabs never forget the national war of the Senusi against Italy...
...editor found him there in 1938, when he already had a reputation as one of the best informed newspapermen in the area. Zinder has been working for TIME ever since, digging out the news for us in the deserts of Arabia and the ports of Syria, in Cyprus, Trans-Jordania, Palestine, Turkey, Irak, Iran, Egypt, and now Libya...
Died. The Emir Ali, 64, onetime King of Hejaz, brother of the late King Feisal of Iraq and the Emir Abdullah of Trans-jordania; after long illness; in the Bagdad palace of his nephew, King Ghazi of Irak...
Since Sultan Ibn Saud is no friend of Great Britain, planes of the Royal Air Force roared out with alacrity from the British war base in Trans-Jordania to bomb the Arabs who had killed U. S. Missionary Bilkerd. As aviators go, those of the R. A. F. are a kindly and efficient lot, although one of them bombed and killed a detachment of British native troops near Peshawar, British India, last week, quite by accident. Those who flew out to avenge Dr. Bilkerd, however, returned with all their bombs intact, having seen no bandits...