Word: arabization
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...dead King's boots were tied heels to the front in the stirrups of his pure white Arabian horse and the procession began to move, paced by the dull boom of a single cannon, fired every minute. Glubb Pasha, British chief of the Arab Legion, wept openly, wiped his eyes with his red-and-white checkered legionnaire's headdress...
...youngster, who was born and raised (until 10) in a harem, came to realize that the Ottoman Empire was on its way out. He sided with another of history's favorites-then still in her prime-the British Empire. The British in World War I were organizing Arab resistance against Turkish rule in the Middle East; and Abdullah and his brothers fought bravely against the Turks...
Dream of a Half Moon. Abdullah stayed consistently loyal to the British, even during World War II, when many other Arab leaders were flirting with the Axis. His great political dream was a new state to combine Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, "that great half moon," as he called it, "which opens' on two seas...
...that moon never rose. Ibn Saud, his family's old enemy, did not like the scheme, and neither did Egypt's Farouk, who dreamed, with his politicians, of uniting the Arab world under Egypt's leadership. Abdullah came to be almost universally disliked by other Arab leaders, denounced for his pro-Western stand...
...slice of Ottoman Empire mandated to the British after World War I, served up to Hashemite King Feisal I (Abdullah's younger brother) in 1921; independent since 1932; a constitutional monarchy. Head of state: KING FEISAL II, 16. Premier: NURI AL SAID, 63. Militant member of the Arab League. Army: three divisions, outdated British equipment. British work oil concessions with Americans, French and Dutch-so far without trouble...