Word: transjordan
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Soldier to Proconsul. In 1937 Wavell returned to the Near East as commander in chief in Palestine and Transjordan, largely stamped out the bloody Jewish-Arab riots. In 1939, he assumed command of the British forces in Egypt. World War II swelled his Egyptian garrison into the Imperial Army of the Nile, an amorphous instrument which he painstakingly fashioned into a weapon that drove the Italians out of Cyrenaica. It was a famous victory at a time when Britain, standing singlehanded against the Axis might, was staggering under successive defeats. For the first time the name of Wavell was heard...
...Kings had forgathered for more than fun. Their meeting, more than a symbol of union between the opposite ends of the Pan-Arab political axis, was a portent of Pan-Arabia itself. A Pan-Arab protocol had already been signed in Alexandria by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Transjordan (TIME, Oct. 16). But a Pan-Arabia without Saudi Arabia was merely a desert mirage. Not that Ibn Saud was hostile to the idea. But he believed that Allah had entrusted him with the divine mission of knitting all Arabs into one nation. Knowing this, Farouk had sent his Minister...
...battles in Italy and southern France comes a Senior Editor fresh from his second wartime assignment to Europe - John Osborne . . . From Egypt and the Middle East comes a TIME correspondent who has been on the Dark Continent all his life, most recently in Cairo -who knows Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, Tripolitania and the Sudan intimately and uncomfortably - South African-born John Barkham . . . And from buzz-bombed Britain comes the man who has been our top correspondent there almost continuously since 1938 (except for his five critical months in Russia as head of our Moscow office and the month he spent...