Word: arabization
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...more than a quarter of a century one of the most potent and famous figures of British imperial power in the Middle East. Last week, suddenly and savagely, the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan sacked and shipped off the desert proconsul who had made its army-the British-equipped Arab Legion-the best fighting force in the Arab world...
...Times labeled Jordan's act "the most sinister event which has occurred in the Middle East since the Egyptian purchase of arms from the Communists." Mourned the Tory Daily Telegraph: "General Glubb represents the last of that group of British individuals including T. E. Lawrence to whom Arab countries of the Middle East owe an incalculable debt...
...More Arab than the Arabs, Glubb Pasha loved to recite Arab classics, finger Moslem prayer beads (though himself an Anglican), and walk hand in hand in Eastern fashion with Abdullah in the King's garden. During interminable parleys with desert sheiks, he would pick imaginary lice from his burnoose to make his guests feel at home. Called Abu Huneik (Father of the Little Jaw) because of a bullet wound incurred on the Western front in World War I, he molded his loyal tribesmen into a hard-disciplined force of 20,000 men that helped to save Iraq from...
...refugees who knew nothing of desert chivalry and saw in Glubb Pasha only a treasonous foreigner who had declined to order his troops to charge straight across Israel. By last fall, when Britain tried to rush its ally Jordan into the anti-Communist Baghdad pact, the wildest forces of Arab nationalism, urged on by Egyptian propaganda and Saudi-Arabian gold, flowed through the little land. Glubb's Legion put down the rioters but only after young (20) King Hussein (who was schooled, like Winston Churchill, at Harrow and Sandhurst) had foresworn the Baghdad pact and some of the Arab...
...King met with the Cabinet, also with British Ambassador Charles Duke. Reportedly under guard of 16 tanks, Glubb, his wife, son and adopted Arab daughter were packed off to the airport. Minutes later King Hussein went on the radio to deliver a brief eulogy of the Legion. As soon as he finished speaking, an announcer read a royal irada (decree) dismissing Glubb, two British aides and three senior Arab officers, and designating Major General Radi Innab as the Legion's new commander...