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...Parliament, last week demanded the stopping of Britain's $33 million annual subsidy, but significantly qualified his demand by waiting to see whether his Arab neighbors would make up the difference to keep his country going. One of the few remaining benefits London gets for its Jordanian subsidy is the right to an air base at Mafraq. Last week the R.A.F. base was under virtual siege, and drinking water, which local contractors refused to supply, had to be flown in from outside. If the British subsidy ends, and nobody else matches it, Jordan will have a hard time holding...
...million British subsidy. Its Harrow-educated King Hussein, 21, is pro-British; its newly elected parliament is rabidly nationalist and leftist; its youthful, pro-Nasser army boss made a military pact with Egypt and Syria just before the invasion of Egypt. But the Arab Legion, now called the Jordanian army, is no longer the trim fighting force British commanders once made of it. Chaotic Jordan may turn out to be the next land fought over. Today, it is anybody's pigeon (except Britain...
...this Baghdad Pact partner of the British was racked by conflicting emotions -secret satisfaction at seeing its chief Arab rival in trouble, open hatred for Israel. Syria-presumably Nasser's stoutest friend-broke off diplomatic relations with France and Britain, but Jordan broke only with France. The Jordanian Kingdom of 20-year-old King Hussein was paralyzed by fear and foreboding...
...runaway victor for Jerusalem's one Christian seat was Communist Dr. Yacup Zeheddine, who won on his personality as much as his politics. One of Jerusalem's two Moslem seats was easily carried by the rabidly anti-Western cousin of the onetime Mufti of Jerusalem. Whatever Jordanian government emerged from the election was bound to be antiWestern...
Harrow-educated King Hussein, Arab nationalist though he is, would almost certainly fight any move to abrogate the Anglo-Jordan Treaty. His reasons:1) the Jordanian government could not function without the $25 million annual subsidy which it gets from Britain, and there is little likelihood that Egypt or Saudi Arabia would make up the difference; 2) the fact that Britain is treaty-bound to come to Jordan's defense provides greater protection against an all-out Israeli attack than any agreement Jordan might make with the Arab states...