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...enemies, churned the waters from Syria to Egypt in a dramatic display of U.S. might. At the same time Jordan requested-and Washington immediately supplied-a $10 million grant to strengthen young King Hussein's struggle to rid his country of Communists and pro-Nasser extremists. Key Jordanian stipulation, to which the U.S. readily agreed: the U.S. money must be explicitly separate from doctrine funds. Moreover, said King Hussein, Jordan "had no intention" of inviting Richards to discuss the doctrine...
...wild enough scrimmage just in Jordanian terms. All the fearful forces of Middle East hatred, fury and greed had taken sides in the struggle; the overshadowing powers of East and West themselves joined in. Hussein was surrounded by foes within and friends without, and by foreign "friends" who were in fact his deadliest menaces because they egged on the domestic foes...
...agreement with Syria for a customs and currency union that would shortly have shifted Jordan's economic capital to Damascus-an arrangement that Jerusalem's sharp traders were slow in getting wise to. In their first months in office, Nabulsi's leftists brought the Anglo-Jordanian treaty to an end. replaced the British subsidy by a pledge of financial help from Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (which only oil-rich Saudi Arabia has so far honored), and began a systematic purge of pro-Western and royalist elements in the civil service. The overthrow of Hussein himself seemed...
...young King to maneuver. So began his busy days and sleepless nights. He flew off to Saudi Arabia to see King Saud, the blood enemy of the Hashemites, whose concern over Communist penetration now runs thicker than blood feuds. Saud promised money to the young King. Within the Jordanian army...
Cairo's radio, Voice of the Arabs, strangely muted during the crisis' first week, began talking darkly about plots "in the palace" against the Jordanian people. This was the familiar signal, sounded just before the Baghdad Pact riots in 1955, for Egyptian agents and Communist organizers to lead the mobs into the streets. But before it could begin, King Hussein got into his twin-engine de Havilland Dove, and flew off to a secret rendezvous at H-3 with his Hashemite cousin, Iraq's 22-year-old King Feisal...