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...Jordan radio heard in Cairo said Hussein and King Saud had agreed in their surprise talks in Saudi Arabia Sunday that the Jordan crisis was an internal affair...
Common Fear. In the Jordan showdown, army and Cabinet leftists were working for some sort of federation with Syria and Nasser's Egypt. But when the King moved against them, Iraq's King Feisal and Saudi Arabia's King Saud forgot their old rivalries to join in backing Hussein against any Syrian army intervention...
What unites the three kings is a common fear of the Communist influence that Nasser and the Syrian army extremists have brought into the Middle East by their arms deals. Within the past month both Saud and Feisal have heard ex-Congressman James Richards, President Eisenhower's special representative...
...troops seemed a nationalist-inspired mutiny. In actual fact, the young King had carefully planned it. For months Hussein had been aware of the dangers of being swept away by Arab nationalist extremists, and made his preparations. He journeyed down to Medina to see Saudi Arabia's King Saud, just before Saud left for his trip to the U.S. Saud, whose fear of Communist penetration of the Middle East far outweighs his old feud with Hussein's Hashemite clan, promised full though secret backing...
Armed with Saud money, Hussein hurried back to Jordan, began lining up Bedouin sheiks to sway the Bedouin troops, who comprise nearly half the Jordanian army. He gave them gifts, obtained jobs for sheiks' sons. To offset the proCommunists' control of the street mobs, he approached leaders of the fanatically anti-Western (and antiCommunist) Moslem Brotherhood, and his agents supplied black market weapons bought with Saudi money. Often the young King drove out for secret, late-night meetings with chosen leaders on lonely roads outside Amman. Hussein picked Zerka for his showdown because a crack Bedouin regiment...