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Another little Arab country-British-mandated Trans-Jordan, pop. 300,000-recently got restive, asked Britain to grant full sovereignty. Trans-Jordan's handsome, blueblooded Emir Abdullah had a telling point: with Britain's covert encouragement, neighboring Syria and Lebanon had lately wrested promises of sovereignty from France...
Last week came Britain's answer: No, until after the war, when the mandating power, the League of Nations or its successor, could give consent. Trans-Jordan's Cabinet resigned in a huff, but a friendly talk between the Emir and Sir Harold MacMichael, British High Commissioner of Palestine, patched up the unpleasantness...
...Trans-Jordan's petition was another sign of rising Arab nationalism. Full sovereignty would raise Emir Abdullah to the rank of King, allow Trans-Jordan to join the nebulous but much-discussed union of Arab states. Britain prefers to postpone such problems until she can concentrate on her vital Middle Eastern sphere...
...Jordan Addresses Meeting...
...honor society's annual public meeting, an event dating back to 1782, in Fogg Museum yesterday, Radcliffe's President Wilbur K. Jordan was the orator, Winfield Scott, of Providence, the poet. Education must be the chief factor in attainment of a "free" society" of "free men," the next step forward in our civillation, said Jordan in his speech on "The Nature of a Free Society...