Authors: Avi Shlaim
26
. Ibid., 64.
27
. Interview with Sir Roger Tomkys.
28
. âMemorandum of a Conversation', 10 December 1956,
Foreign Relations of the United States. Volume XIII,
74.
29
. Sir Harold Caccia to FO, 25 December 1956, FO 371/121525, PRO.
30
. âMemorandum of a Conversation', 17 January 1957,
Foreign Relations of the United States. Volume XIII,
81â3.
31
. Gideon Rafael to Foreign Ministry, 22 January 1957, 3745/1, ISA.
32
. Morris,
The Hashemite Kings,
214.
33
. Johnston,
The Brink of Jordan,
27.
34
. Shimshon Arad, Washington, âThe Situation in Jordan', 29 April 1957, 3745/1, ISA.
35
. Robert B. Satloff,
From Abdullah to Hussein: Jordan in Transition
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 161.
36
. Ibid., 154.
37
. Hussein bin Talal,
Uneasy Lies the Head,
133â4.
38
. Mallory to DOS, 13 February 1957,
Foreign Relations of the United States. Volume XIII,
84â6.
39
. Johnston,
The Brink of Jordan,
163.
40
. Ibid., 47â8.
41
. Hussein bin Talal,
Uneasy Lies the Head,
128â31.
1
. Lester Mallory to the DOS, 29 March 1957,
Foreign Relations of the United States 1955â1957. Volume XIII. Near East: Jordan-Yemen
(Washington, DC: United States Government Printing House, 1988), 88â9.
2
. C. H. Johnston, âJordan: Annual Review for 1956', 19 March 1957, FO 371/127876, Public Record Office (PRO).
3
. Interview with Natheer Rasheed; and Joseph A. Massad,
Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), 193.
4
. Hussein bin Talal,
Uneasy Lies the Head: An Autobiography
(London: Heinemann, 1962), 135.
5
. C. H. Johnston, âJordan: Annual Review for 1956', 19 March 1957, FO 371/127876, PRO.
6
. Hussein bin Talal,
Uneasy Lies the Head,
135.
7
. Uriel Dann,
King Hussein and the Challenge of Arab Radicalism: Jordan 1955â1967
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 56.
8
. James Morris,
The Hashemite Kings
(London: Faber and Faber, 1959), 216.
9
. Hussein bin Talal,
Uneasy Lies the Head,
136.
10
. Elie Podeh, âThe Struggle for Arab Hegemony after the Suez Crisis',
Middle Eastern Studies,
29:1 (January 1993).
11
. Hussein bin Talal,
Uneasy Lies the Head,
137â51.
12
. Peter Snow,
Hussein: A Biography
(London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1972), 108â13.
13
. Miles Copeland,
The Game of Nations: The Amorality of Power Politics
(London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969), 189.
14
. Interview with Natheer Rasheed.
15
. Johnston to Lloyd, 14 May 1957, FO 371.127880/VJ 1015/118. Cited in Robert B. Satloff,
From Abdullah to Hussein: Jordan in Transition
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 168.
16
.
Foreign Relations of the United States. Volume XIII,
94â7.
17
. Erskine B. Childers,
The Road to Suez: A Study of Western-Arab Relations
(London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1962), Appendix B, 397â401.
18
. Lawrence Tal,
Politics, the Military, and National Security in Jordan 1955â1967
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), 45.
19
. Satloff,
From Abdullah to Hussein,
167.
20
. P. J. Vatikiotis,
Politics and the Military in Jordan: A Study of the Arab Legion 1921â1957
(London: Frank Cass, 1967), 130â35.
21
. Childers,
The Road to Suez,
398.
22
. Tal,
Politics, the Military, and National Security in Jordan,
49.
23
. Dann,
King Hussein and the Challenge of Arab Radicalism,
60.
24
.
Foreign Relations of the United States. Volume XIII.
100â109.
25
. Charles Johnston,
The Brink of Jordan
(London: Hamish Hamilton, 1972), 61; and Satloff,
From Abdullah to Hussein,
171â2.
26
. Dann,
King Hussein and the Challenge of Arab Radicalism,
64.
27
. Johnston,
The Brink of Jordan,
62.
28
. C. H. Johnston, âJordan: Annual Review for 1957', 28 January 1958, FO 371/134006, PRO.
29
. Johnston,
The Brink of Jordan,
62.
30
. Ibid, 79â81.
31
.
Foreign Relations of the United States. Volume XIII,
109.
32
. C. H. Johnston, âJordan: Annual Review for 1957', 28 January 1958, FO 371/134006, PRO.
33
. Wilbur Crane Eveland,
Ropes of Sand: America's Failure in the Middle East
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1980), 183â4.
34
. Ibid., 188.
35
. Ibid., 189â91.
36
. Bob Woodward, âCIA Paid Millions to Jordan's King Hussein',
Washington Post,
18 February 1977; Bob Woodward,
Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981â1987
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987), 238.
37
. Philip Geyelin, âHashemite: The Story of King Hussein of Jordan', unpublished manuscript, âThe Papers of Philip Geyelin', Middle East Centre Archive, St Antony's College, Oxford, Chapter 30, 9â10.
38
. Interview with a former CIA official who wished to remain anonymous.
39
. Interview with Mreiwad al-Tall.
40
. Satloff,
From Abdullah to Hussein,
174â5.
41
. C. H. Johnston, âJordan: Annual Review for 1957', 28 January 1958, FO 371/134006, PRO.
42
. Ibid.
1
. Malcolm H. Kerr,
The Arab Cold War: Gamal Abd al-Nasir and His Rivals 1958â1970,
3rd ed. (London: Oxford University Press, 1971).
2
. Elie Podeh,
The Decline of Arab Unity: The Rise and Fall of the United Arabic Republic
(Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1999), 39â48. See also Patrick Seale,
The Struggle for Syria: A Study in Post-war Arab Politics 1945â1958
(London: Oxford University Press, 1965), 321.
3
. Podeh,
The Decline of Arab Unity,
47.
4
. Charles Johnston,
The Brink of Jordan
(London: Hamish Hamilton, 1972), 88.
5
. James Lunt,
Hussein of Jordan
(London: Fontana/Collins, 1990), 70.
6
. I am grateful to Foulath Hadid for sharing with me his knowledge of Iraqi history during this period.
7
. Hussein bin Talal,
Mihnati ka-malik [My Profession as King],
in Arabic, (Amman: Al-Ahliyya Publishing House, [n.d.]), 140â46.
8
. Douglas Little, âA Puppet in Search of a Puppeteer? The United States, King Hussein and Jordan 1953â1970',
International History Review,
18:3 (August 1995).
9
. Harold Macmillan,
Riding the Storm 1956â1959
(London: Macmillan, 1971), 503.
10
. Lawrence Tal,
Politics, the Military, and National Security in Jordan 1955â1967
(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), 56.
11
. Mouayad Ibrahim K. al-Windawi, âAnglo-Iraqi Relations 1945â1958' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Reading, 1989), 321.
12
. Michael Ionides,
Divide and Lose: The Arab Revolt of 1955â1958
(London: Geoffrey Bles, 1960), 246.
13
. Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv,
Behind the Uprising: Israelis, Jordanians, and Palestinians
(New York: Greenwood Press, 1989), 55â6.
14
. Uriel Dann,
King Hussein and the Challenge of Arab Radicalism: Jordan 1955â1967
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 86â7.
15
. Little, âA Puppet in Search of a Puppeteer? The United States, King Hussein and Jordan 1953â1970'.
16
. Hussein bin Talal,
Uneasy Lies the Head: An Autobiography
(London: Heinemann, 1962), 160â61.
17
. Interview with King Hussein bin Talal.
18
. Al-Windawi, âAnglo-Iraqi Relations 1945â1958', 330.
19
. Hussein. bin Talal,
Uneasy Lies the Head,
155.
20
. Interview with Ali Shukri.
21
. Philip Geyelin, âHashemite: The Story of King Hussein of Jordan', unpublished manuscript, âThe Papers of Philip Geyelin', Middle East Centre Archive, St Antony's College, Oxford, Chapter 29,1 5.
22
. Eliezer Be'eri,
Army Officers in Arab Politics and Society
(New York: Praeger, 1970), 176.
23
. Humphrey Trevelyan,
The Middle East in Revolution
(London: Macmillan, 1970), 135â7.
24
. For an analysis of a first-hand account of the massacre see Elie Kedourie,
Arabic Political Memoirs and Other Studies
(London: Frank Cass, 1974), 179â82.
25
. Al-Windawi, âAnglo-Iraqi Relations 1945â1958', 327â8.
26
. Little, âA Puppet in Search of a Puppeteer? The United States, King Hussein and Jordan 1953â1970'.
27
. Heath Mason to FO, 16 July 1958, FO 371/134038/30190, Public Record Office (PRO).
28
. Macmillan,
Riding the Storm 1956â1959,
518.
29
. Geyelin, âHashemite: The Story of King Hussein of Jordan', Chapter 29, 15.
30
. Macmillan,
Riding the Storm 1956â1959,
518.
31
. Avi Shlaim, âIsrael, the Great Powers, and the Middle East Crisis of 1958',
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History,
27:2 (May 1999).
32
. David Ben-Gurion's diary, 14 July 1958, Ben-Gurion Archive, Sede-Boker.
33
. Lord Hood to Sir William Hayter, 9 September 1958, FO 371/134279, PRO.
34
. Minute by C. A. E. Shuckburgh, 28 July 1958, FO 371/134289/30190, PRO.
35
. Interview with King Hussein bin Talal.
36
. Hussein bin Talal,
Uneasy Lies the Head,
168.
37
. Ibid., 167.
38
. Interview with Prince Talal bin Muhammad.
39
. Ibid.
40
. Johnston,
The Brink of Jordan,
104.
41
. James Morris,
The Hashemite Kings
(London: Faber and Faber, 1959), 220.
42
. Ibid., 222.
43
. Johnston,
The Brink of Jordan, 106.
44
. Robert B. Satloff, âThe Jekyll-and-Hyde Origins of the US-Jordanian Strategic Relationship' in
The Middle East and the United States: A Historical and Political Reassessment,
ed. David W. Lesch (Boulder, CO: Westview, 2003), 128.
45
.
Foreign Relations of the United States 1955â1957. Volume XIII. Near East: Jordan-Yemen
(Washington, DC: United States Government Printing House, 1988), 74â7.
46
. Dann,
King Hussein and the Challenge of Arab Radicalism,
91.
47
. Johnston,
The Brink of Jordan,
107.
48
. Macmillan,
Riding the Storm 1956â1959,
524.
49
. Johnston,
The Brink of Jordan,
108â11.
50
. Ibid., 109, 112.
51
. Hussein bin Talal,
Uneasy Lies the Head,
172.
52
. Ibid., 179â85.
53
. Tal,
Politics, the Military, and National Security in Jordan,
65.