Author's note: I thank Naghmeh Sohrabi as well as Andrew Arsan, Michael Cook, Ellen Fleischmann, Roger Owen, and Bob Vitalis for their comments on various drafts. Four IJMES referees asked incisive questions, as did IJMES editors Beth Baron and Sara Pursley, who also polished my prose. This article is a spin-off product of my current book project, Lands of Sham: A Transnational History of the Middle East, 1850–1950.

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⁵² Memorandum, Roundtree to Secretary of State Dulles, Washington, 27 December 1958, document 52, FRUS (1958–1960) vol. XI.

⁵³ “Nasir Addresses Cooperative Congress,” FBIS, 28 November 1958, B14–15. Al-Nasir also felt forced to show understanding for Syria's merchants. See “Nasir Reassures Syrian Economic Group,” FBIS, 22 December 1958, B1–5.

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⁵⁵ See n. 35.

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⁶⁵ However, al-Nasir closely supervised the committee's work. See al-Baghdadi, Mudhakkirat, 2:64; and Hawrani, Mudhakkirat, 4:2762.

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⁷³ Major welfare programs were also launched in 1959. The first Damascus food and consumer goods cooperative opened in May 1959; social insurance was launched in August. See “First Cooperative Center,” Mideast Mirror, 10 May 1959, 21; and “Social Security,” FBIS, 1 September 1959, B2.

⁷⁴ Syrian Five-Year Plan, 6–7. 1,000 million SP was to be private investment, the rest public. The private sector over-fulfilled while the public sector under-fulfilled its quota, the latter averaging out at 94 percent. See Keilany, “Economic Planning,” 369.

⁷⁵ Keilany, “Economic Planning,” 373, 371–72.

⁷⁶ See n. 25–27.

⁷⁷ Letter, Hugh Walker to Champion Ward, 2 June 1959, grant file (hereafter GF) 59–229, Ford Foundation Archives, New York (hereafter FFA).

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⁸⁶ Rathmell, Secret War, 149–51. For the UAR-run Jordanian People's Radio, see “New Station Calls on Jordanians to Rise,” FBIS, 22 July 1958, G1. See also “Crush King Hussein,” FBIS, 17 September 1958, G1; and “Devastating Revolt in Store for King,” FBIS, 22 October 1958, G2.

⁸⁷ Shlaim, Avi, Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace (New York: Vintage Books, 2009), 164Google Scholar, an interview with Prince Talal bin Muhammad.

⁸⁸ Ibid., 167.

⁸⁹ Memo, Walker, 19 December 1958, GF/59–229, FFA.

⁹⁰ U.S. Embassy Amman, Weekly Economic Report, 21–27 May 1959, reel 7, Jordan 1955–59, Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files (hereafter CSDCF), RG/59, NARA. For Nuseibeh, see Nuseibeh, Dhikrayat, 136–38. Other JDB specialists studied at AUB, UC-Davis, and Indiana. See letter, Walker to Ward, 2 June 1959, GF/59–229, FFA; and Memo, Walker, 19 December 1958, GF/59–229, FFA.

⁹¹ Memo, T. Nadeau, 15 October 1958, GF/59–229, FFA. See also Memo, Harvey Hall, 25 November 1957, GF/59–229, FFA.

⁹² Letter, F. Hill to Walker, 9 December 1958, GF/59–229, FFA. See also letter, Walker to Ward, Beirut, 1 July 1959, GF/59–229, FFA.

⁹³ Letter, Hill to Walker, 21 November 1958, GF/59–229, FFA. For the consultants, see letter, Walker to Ward, 8 July 1959, GF/59–229, FFA.

⁹⁴ For the interim account, see letter, Lewis to Ward, 3 May 1960, GF/59–459, FFA. For plan expenditures, see Jordan, Program, 353.

⁹⁵ Kingston, “Rationalizing Patrimonialism,” 118, 123, states that already by 1958 King Husayn understood that he needed to attract new talent to stabilize his rule. See also al-Tawisi, Basim, “al-Dawla wa-l-Tajnid al-Siyasi,” in Dirasat fi Tarikh al-Urdunn al-Ijtimaʿi, ed. collective editors (Amman: Sindbad, 2003), 429–30Google Scholar. For 1962 as a milestone, see, for example, Robins, A History of Jordan, 105, 108; Dann, King Hussein, 120; and Shlaim, Lion of Jordan, 187.

⁹⁶ Letter, Walker to Ward, 1 July 1959, GF/59–229, FFA. See also U.S. Embassy, “Ford Foundation,” 18 September 1959, reel 7, Jordan 1955–59, CSDCF, RG/59, NARA. Also, see Husayn's reference to raising living standards in “Khitab al-Husayn fi Iftitah Muʾtamar al-Ittihad al-Taʿawuni al-Markazi fi ʿAmman,” 25 ʿAman min al-Tarikh (Khutab li-l-Malik Husayn) (London: Mutawiʿ, 1970), 1:301.

⁹⁷ Letter, Walker to Ward, 8 July 1959, GF/59–229, FFA.

⁹⁸ “King Husayn Speaks at Parliament Opening,” FBIS, 1 October 1959, D1–5.

⁹⁹ Hussein, Uneasy, 282, refers to these broadcasts as a whole.

¹⁰⁰ “Hadith al-Husayn ila al-Shaʿb al-Urdunni min Dar al-Idhaʿa al-Urdunniyya,” in 25 ʿAman, 1:537. Likewise, the government asked for private sector support. See “Premier Opens Five-Year Plan Conference,” FBIS, 19 May 1961, D3.

¹⁰¹ Jordan, Program (my italics), 16, 10, 13, 10, 21.

¹⁰² Dees, Joseph, “Jordan's East Ghor Canal Project,” Middle East Journal 13 (1959): 358Google Scholar. For the acceleration of this and other investments including in Port Aqaba, roads, electricity, and the phosphate industry, see U.S. Embassy Amman, “Annual Economic Assessment,” p. 21, 27 April 1959, Jordan Subject Files (1953–60), box 16, RG/469, NARA.

¹⁰³ Shihan, Development, 14.

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¹⁰⁷ Popp, “Accomodating,” 401.

¹⁰⁸ NSC report 5820/1, point 6.

¹⁰⁹ Letter, John Bell (ICA) to Alfred Wolf (FF), 26 November 1957, GF/59–229, FFA.

¹¹⁰ First, by “encouraging allocation of indigenous resources to economic development”; second, by “encouraging private organizations and Free World governments interested in the area to contribute financial and technical assistance”; third, by “supporting loans by international organizations where consistent with relevant US loan policies”; fourth, by “being prepared to support a soundly-organized Arab development institution”; and only last by “being prepared to provide U.S. loans for projects which are consistent with relevant U.S. loan policies; and continue technical assistance.” See NSC report 5820/1, point 12.

¹¹¹ Letter, Lewis to Walker, 22 June 1959, GF/59–229, FFA.

¹¹² Letter, Walker to Ward, 3 June 1959, GF/59–229, FFA. The trip apparently did not take place.

¹¹³ For the shah's shock about Iraq, see Gesandtschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Tehran, “Politischer Lagebericht,” Tehran, 2 October 1958 (Document Po1 708.81/92.18, Nr. 2050/58), box 3013, Neues Amt (Av), Politisches Archiv, Berlin. For the meetings, see “Mideast Peace Backed,” The New York Times, 7 November 1959, 4; and “Padishahi-yi Shujaʿ, Mihman-i Shashinshah-i Buzurg-i Ma,” Ittilaʿat-i Haftagi, 8 April 1960, 1–3, stressing Husayn's and the shah's shared concerns.

¹¹⁴ For Libya, see letter, Earl Hald (Chief Economist, UN Mission to Libya) to Lewis, (June?) 1960, GF/59–459, FFA; letter, Lewis to Hald, 22 June 1960, GF/59–459, FFA. For India, see U.S. Embassy Amman, “Memorandum of Conversation (US Ambassador in Jordan),” 8 July 1959, reel 7, Jordan 1955–59, CSDCF, RG/59, NARA. I received the information on Sudan from Mr. Alden Young, 21 February 2012, Princeton, N.J.

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¹³¹ Corm, Politique, 20.

¹³² Mideast Mirror, 26 November 1958, 2.

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¹⁴⁸ Malsagne, Fouad Chéhab, 297, 269–98.

¹⁴⁹ Ibid., 282, 320–32.

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¹⁵⁵ There were U.S. reservations about Lebret's “somewhat doctrinaire influence on Lebanese economic planning.” See dispatch, Embassy Beirut to State Department, 6 June 1962, reel 5, Lebanon 1960–63, CSDCF, RG/59, NARA.

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