Word: tewfik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Havilland Dove rolled to a stop, and out stepped 43-year-old King Talal, looking worn and taut. He mumbled a few words, which no one could understand, to Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb Pasha, the powerful Briton who commands Talal's Arab Legion, and to Premier Tewfik Pasha Abul Huda, who kissed him on both cheeks...
...Tewfik Pasha Abul Huda hurriedly summoned a special meeting of Jordan's Parliament in Amman last week and swore all the members to secrecy. Then, as his eyes moistened behind his large, horn-rimmed glasses, the Prime Minister of Jordan told the assembled deputies and senators a sad story...
...There was trouble in Jordan, too. Executed for plotting the murder of Jordan's King Abdullah was: 1. Jordan's Premier, Tewfik Pasha...
...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...