Word: transjordania
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Actually it was Great Britain, not the League of Nations, which permitted Irak to achieve last week a status thus far denied to Syria (French Mandate) and Palestine & Transjordania (British Mandates). Dryly Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey remarked: "I trust we soon will be able to welcome Syria...
Polite but noncommittal, French Delegate Henry Berenger at once murmured, "I wish to unreservedly associate myself with this [Turkish] declaration and to extend the hope expressed to both Palestine and Transjordania...
...months ago Hamad Ibn Rafada crossed the Hejaz border from Transjordania at the head of 800 armed Bedouins, swearing that he would march to Mecca, depose Ibn Saud, set up a new prince of the old Hashimite dynasty. Ibn Saud sent 1,000 followers out to meet him near Jebel Shammarwith machine guns, armored cars. After a nine-hour battle the Bili were routed, 360 were killed. Hamad Ibn Rafada was decapitated, his head sent to Dhaba where the boys got a new plaything...
Died. Hussein ibn Ali, 76, onetime King of Hedjaz and Grand Sheriff† of Mecca, father of King Feisal of Iraq; father of Emir Abdullah of Transjordania; father of King Ali who succeeded him for a short time when he was forced to abdicate in 1924; in Amman, near Jerusalem Aided by Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence, he revolted against the Turks in 1916 dreamed of establishing a Pan-Arabian Empire which, says Col. Lawrence, the Allied Powers promised him in a treaty in 1915. But Arabia was parcelled out and he became King only of the Hedjaz, was dethroned...
With his son King Feisal of Irak supporting one arm, and with his other son the Amir Abdullah of Transjordania supporting his other arm, forlorn former King Hussein of the Hejaz landed in Palestine last week, en route from his exile on the Island of Cyprus to Amman, capital of Transjordiana. Object: needed medical attention...