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Young King Hussein, who suddenly and dramatically dismissed the pro-Syrian government of Premier Suleiman Nabulsi yesterday, asked Dr. Hussein Fakhri Khalidi to form a new government. Stubborn opposition from the Left appeared to have foredoomed his chances...
...Jordan, that wide space in the desert which has little reason for nationhood, the noisily Nationalist government has been losing steam. Young (21) King Hussein a fortnight ago wrote Premier Suleiman Nabulsi bluntly: "We now detect the danger of Communist infiltration in our Arab homeland, and the threat posed by those who feign loyalty to Arab nationalism, indulge in hullabaloo, prevarications, falsehood and heroics, thereby seeking to conceal their evil designs against Arab nationalism and the fact that they cooperate with our enemies in misleading the masses and exploiting the people...
...could get away with it. The unceasing Arab nationalist agitation among Jordan's large Palestinian refugee population has moved young King Hussein to offer to give up his throne if that would advance the cause of Arab unity. Admitting that "Jordan cannot live forever as Jordan," Premier Suleiman Nabulsi two months ago called for federation with other Arab states...
Last week Nabulsi's Parliament unanimously ratified the Cairo agreement, by which Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia are supposed to pay the equivalent of about $36 million a year to Jordan in place of the old British subsidy. But nobody in Amman who knows the score thinks the new deal is worth much because the "donors" themselves are pinched and overdrawn, even the oil-rich Saudi Arabians. The State Department expects King Saud to tell President Eisenhower this week that only Saud can save Jordan, and that the only way to do it is to give him the money...
Jordan (pop. 1,500,000), a precarious sandtrap, is currently host to a Syrian brigade and an Iraqi brigade, nominally there to help defend it against Israel, but ready to pick up the pieces if Jordan itself flies apart. New Premier Suleiman Nabulsi, echoing the demands of the Nasserites in his 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...