Glubb Pasha [Hardcover]

James Lunt (Author)

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• Hardcover: 264 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; First Edition edition (February 9, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0002726386
• ISBN-13: 978-0002726382
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,210,045 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars ... no insult added to injury...., April 17, 2007

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Mr Bassil A MARDELLI "Antoun" (Riad El-SOLH , Beirut Lebanon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Glubb Pasha (Hardcover)

When in 1956 King Hussein terminated the services of Glubb Pasha, Selwyn Lloyd - the British Foreign Secretary - who was then dining with Nasser, thought it was Nasser who instigated the King's action.
Heikal, Egypt's leading journalist who was very close to Nasser, confirmed time and again that Nasser had never had pre-knowledge of the Jordanian Monarch decision to send Glubb Pasha back home - to England.
Although such remark has the ring of memoirs written after the event, it is confirmed that Nasser told Lloyd " I am happy Britain decided to take back Glubb recognizing the furor now prevailing in the Streets of Amman `yelling' against the Baghdad Pact.... Your action may well have been taken to absorb such uproar and prevent it from spreading - Congratulations "" but unfortunately Selwyn Lloyd took Nasser's remarks to evoke grandeur of speech to hurt the British intelligence.
Antony Eden, whose life had been a flaming dedication to Britain's colonial existence that was then believed to erase national lines, strongly felt what Nasser was not - A dictator with the Pan Arab theory ennobling the fulfillment of his historic mission. Eden released his inhibitions and brought the British Cabinet to the desired state of raw excitement, an added reason that was intended to lead to the fateful 1956 Suez events....
Schooled in an era in which the relation of the subject to the sovereign has no basis other than obedience, Eden was unable to understand a world organized upon any other foundation, comfortable only in the presence of authority. Eden took the ousting of Glubb Pasha as a personal insult.