ABSTRACT
Generally, one can say that for the period under discussion the attitude of the officers and NCOs was clearly of two kinds. On the one hand, the tribesman-beduin in the Legion (overwhelmingly in Infantry and Armour) understood loyalty in personal terms, not on any higher institutional level. He was loyal to the Pasha, Abuna Abu Paris ("Our Father, Father of Faris"), General Glubb, to Sayyidna ("Our Master"), the King, and to the commanding officer of his regiment. The latter embodied and personified the Jeish—the army—for the beduin. This despite the fact that as a recruit the beduin, when inducted, took an oath to serve "king and country". As was shown in the political disturbances of the period October 1954-January 1956, the beduin's attitude clearly was one which assumed that only the kadarĩ—the town slicker—officer could be involved in politics. To some extent this may have been a rationalisation—or another way of expression—of the constant, underlying friction (a result of the antipathy referred to earlier) between beduin and hadarĩ elements in the Legion. 1
