Word: jordaning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Aleppo-Latakia column was believed to be headed by Major John Bagot Glubb, commandant for the past decade of Trans-Jordan's independent Arab Legion and another latter-day Lawrence of Arabia...
...middle of a starry desert night, General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson poked a three-pronged drive into Syria. One prong from Palestine aimed up the coast at Beirut, Syria's No. i port; another from Amman in Trans-Jordan through the mountainous Druse district towards Damascus; the third from Iraq up the Euphrates Valley toward Deir-ez-Zor, one of the most important French garrisons in the country. Royal Navy units gathered off the coast and opened fire, R.A.F. bombers punched hard at airfields...
Keystone Contention. Syria, slightly smaller than Nebraska, is the keystone of the whole Middle East. Firmly established there, the Germans could: 1) complete the encirclement of Turkey; 2) march on to Iraq and its oil fields; 3) execute a super-colossal grand slam on Palestine, Trans-Jordan and the Suez Canal, which, coupled with a drive from Libya, would chase the British out of the Mediterranean Theater. As it stood, the Germans had already bypassed Cyprus...
Also helping the Allies will be colorful General Philibert Collet, who escaped into Trans-Jordan recently with bloodthirsty detachments of Circassian and Ismaili tribesmen. Vichy authorities had suspected him of De Gaullist leanings and dispatched him away from the border to Damascus. Mme. Collet took a room in a Damascus hotel in her husband's name and a junior officer was stationed there to answer phone calls until she and the General could make their getaway. At the frontier, guarded by quick-firing Senegalese, Mme. Collet stepped on the gas of her husband's car, hooted the horn...
...Jerries man to fighting man. The evacuation was a race against time and the Nazis. The hurrying enemy surrounded and captured some 10,000 of these bedraggled men before the British were able to get them off. Crete was lost. It would be hard now to hold Iraq, Trans-Jordan, Palestine and Egypt. The Mediterranean was no longer Admiral Cunningham's Pond. And yet the British were apparently not downhearted. They were confident that Crete was the last place where Germany would have undisputed air superiority. An R.A.F. spokesman in Cairo said: "There is no chance for further German...