Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle East's greatest malcontent and plotter. The Mufti hated Abdullah because he had counted on Abdullah's arms to whip the Jews, whereupon the Mufti would take over all Palestine. Instead, Abdullah made peace with the Jews and personally annexed parts of Palestine to his tiny kingdom...
...Britain's old scheme for uniting Jordan with Iraq into a single, pro-British kingdom that would dominate the Arab world. The Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister was sent to London to sell the plan. Britain would be promised bases in the new Greater Syria. If it rejected the plan (as it undoubtedly would), the Middle East might lapse back into terrorism...
...practical choice for Mecca was polytheism or, if it elected monotheism, the political conquest of all Arabia and the imposition of its one-God religion. To a man, the Mec can leaders rejected Mohammed. But he persisted even after he gradually came to realize that his spiritual kingdom did not have a of of spreading unless it also achieved a kingdom of this world. The political crisis of Christianity had not come until the 4th Century with the conversion of Constantine; Islam's political crisis, confronting Mohammed at the start of his mission, colored all his teaching...
...Leopold and his son returned from Switzerland, a heavy guard lined the streets of Brussels to protect them from possible attack. It was not a happy augury for the young man who was coming home to his future kingdom...
Died. King Abdullah Ibn-Hussein, 69, Arab ruler of the Kingdom of Jordan; by an assassin's bullet; in Old Jerusalem (see FOREIGN NEWS...