Word: transjordan
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...protests from Iraq were followed by similar protests from the British-dominated governments of Egypt, Transjordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Lebanon. Alarmed, the U.S. military suddenly decided that the resolution was no matter for Congressional debate, but touched on high military policy...
...hold the lid down; they have been in actual military control of Syria and Lebanon since 1941. They were not averse to a fading of rival French prestige and power in the Arab sphere. But successful revolt in Lebanon might give ideas to the Arabs of British-mandated Transjordan and Palestine, British-allied Iraq and Egypt...
Since the Moslem hierarchy of Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Transjordan, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Yemen, India and Egypt must first decide on the choice of a Caliph, to cheers were premature but it was significant that among those cheering were Farouk's guests, the Emir of Yemen, Self-al-Islam Hussein, and Emir Feisal, the son of Saudi Arabia's King, Ibn Saud...
...usual sullen calm lay last week over the Biblical lands of Gilead, Moab and Ammon where King David once fought Absalom and where the British Crown now rules the mandated territory of Transjordan. Suddenly across the vineyards, the wheatfields and the deserts crackled news that the British Government of Palestine had lent $500,000 to Transjordan. To horse and to camel leaped the Arab sheiks, whipping their beasts hell-bent for Amman, the capital. Practically every tribal sheik in the country was in the mob that stormed the house of Premier Sheik Abdallah Sarraj, demanding...