Foreign News: Our Superior Airs

"We have all heard that the pen is mightier than the sword," writes Lieut. General Sir John Bagot Glubb, recently sacked commander of Jordan's Arab Legion, "but we do not seem really to have taken it to heart." Deprived of his sword by the young King of Jordan, whose family he had served since 1930, Glubb last week in Surrey, England, took to the pen.

In a series of articles syndicated by the North American Newspaper Alliance, the desert warrior concluded: "It was neither the King nor I who was at fault. King Hussein and I alike had been borne away willy-nilly...

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