Word: monarchism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iraq has its geographical unity, its great river valley, and after three generations under a British-created monarch, its own political and economic institutions. Above all, it has oil. Among Arab states, Egypt and Syria lack the oil-creating wealth, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf sheikdoms the economy that can absorb it. Iraq, alone of all Arab nations, has both, and on the wave of its oil royalties it has launched an ambitious program of economic development that is transforming the political balances of the region...
...certain point last week. Jordan's weakness became its strength: neighbors who coveted it found common cause in recognizing that an artificial nation was better than chaos. But above all. what saved the Kingdom of Jordan was the courage of the young King, an often irresolute monarch who at this crucial moment stood firm...
Hussein, born in 1935 in dusty Amman, became the King's favorite grandson, receiving a royal schooling in horsemanship and saber fighting, and accompanying the old monarch all over his desert realm. "My boy," said Abdullah. "I want you to come always to me and try to learn what you can from what you witness at my palace. Who knows? The time may come when you will replace me on the throne...
While his security forces pressed a roundup of Communists and other elements suspected of promoting unrest, the young monarch got around to rejecting a resolution adopted three weeks ago by the government of leftist Suleiman Nabulsi for an exchange of envoys between Amman and Moscow...
Mohammed V was brought back from Madagascar to France. The throne council which was supposed to replace him flew to Paris to pledge their allegiance. So did scores of Moroccan chiefs and notables. Sycophant El Glaoui humbly prostrated himself before Mohammed, kissed his monarch's feet and begged forgiveness. Suddenly anxious to please. Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay agreed not only that Mohammed should return to the throne, but that France would help Morocco to "achieve the status of an independent state, united to France by the permanent ties of an interdependence freely accepted and defined." Pinay even agreed that...