King Abdullah I of Jordan talking to a member of the Transjordanian Legation at the Dorchester Hotel, London, on September 1, 1949. With him are British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Attlee’s wife Violet. Edward Miller/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
Seventy years ago, on April 24, 1950, the parliament of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan resolved in favor of “complete unity between the two banks of the Jordan, the eastern and western, and their union in one single state.”