Philadelphia Is in Jordan
371
Jordan became a British mandate in 1920. Under British rule,
Jordan had made phenomenal progress—contrasted to that
under Turkish rule—and the fiercely independent Bedouins,
who comprised more than half the population, were brought
into line under Abdullah, crowned king in 1947.
But Jordan still was backward. The vast majority of the
native population of four hundred thousand was illiterate.
The country's first Secondary College (corresponding to