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...days before, the new King had been a patient in a mental hospital near Geneva, undergoing insulin shock treatments for an unspecified mental disorder, while his younger brother, Prince Naif, ruled as Regent. Then, so goes the story in Amman, Talal began getting word of a plot at home. Naif, deciding he liked the feel of power, was conniving with two cabinet ministers and Jordan's chief justice to dissolve Parliament and proclaim himself King. He would be backed by the guns of the Arab Legion's Hashemite regiment, the King's bodyguard...
...Jordan's premier, Tewfik Pasha, quickly squashed the plot. The British quietly decided that Talal ought to take over from Naif. In betting on Talal, London took a calculated risk. Talal has been violently anti-British. In one of his fits of temper, he reportedly slapped the respected face of Glubb Pasha, British head of the Legion. Said he once: "If I am insane, it is with a hatred of the British...
Emir Tallal (40), heir apparent to King Abdullah, now a psychiatric patient in a clinic at Prangins near Geneva, while his brother Emir Naif acts as regent. Was packed off to Switzerland after several violent seizures, usually at cocktail parties, during which he fell on innocent bystanders-mostly British officers. Hates the British and the West...
Abdullah had three wives, two sons, three daughters. No. 1 Queen was a cousin, Umm Talal, mother of Prince Talal; No. 2 Queen was a Turk, Umm Naif, mother of Prince Naif the new regent; No. 3 was a comely Ethiopian, black as the tents of Kedar, onetime maidservant to Umm Naif. The black queen attended to Abdullah's clothes, prepared his favorite meals of tender lamb, rice and raisins. A trim figure with a passion for green clothes and nylon stockings, she is, despite her heavy veil, often recognized in Amman's streets. An Amman urchin once...
JORDAN (pop. 450,000): British mandate after World War I; 1921 an Emirate; in 1946, a kingdom ruled by the Hashemite family. Since KING ABDULLAH'S assassination last week, a regency under PRINCE NAIF. Army: 15,000-man British-trained Arab Legion, best Arab fighting force. Member of Arab League, but at odds with it over Hashemite aspirations for a union with Iraq, Syria, Lebanon...