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The post-Second World War era was marked by a significant intensification of relations between the British and Transjordan. A key feature of this process was an increase in the British subsidy for the Arab Legion. Glubb played a central role in pressuring Whitehall to expand its support for the legion, and the British consented because it was in their strategic interests. Although the continuation of Glubb’s role of the Arab Legion was raised, the situation in Palestine posed a significant threat to Transjordan. Glubb wrote a series of controversial memoranda in 1946 and 1947 in which he advocated the partition of Palestine, and said that the Arab Legion should occupy the predominantly Arab areas of region. Although he was not alone in advocating such a policy, he adopted a Transjordanian perspective of events in Palestine. During the course of the First Arab-Israeli War in 1948–1949, the Arab Legion occupied the mainly Arab areas of Palestine, but the war proved to be an unprecedented civil-military challenge for Glubb and the Transjordanian Government.
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David A. Charters, The British Army and the Jewish Insurgency in Palestine, 1945–47, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1989, pp. 42–83.
Tancred Bradshaw, ‘Arms and Influence: British arms policy and the decline of British influence in the Middle East, 1948–49’, British Scholar, Vol. III, No. 1, September 2010, pp. 79–104.
Tancred Bradshaw, ‘Israel and the West Bank, 1948–49’, Israel Affairs, 16: 2, April 2010, pp. 237–240.
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Bradshaw, T. (2016). Glubb, Transjordan and the Palestine Mandate, 1945–1949. In: The Glubb Reports: Glubb Pasha and Britain’s Empire Project in the Middle East 1920–1956. Britain and the World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137380111_4
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