This evening, BBC Four was supposed to show Jerusalem: An Archaeological Mystery. It was mysteriously cancelled. Why?
Meanwhile, a treaty with Jordan, indeed! Why did we ever leave what, after the manner of British Guyana or British Honduras, ought most obviously to have been called British Syria? Only because we were bombed out by the founders of modern terrorism. Those did not go on to found the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. But even so.
The whole of the British Mandate of Palestine ought to have become a Dominion called the Kingdom of Jerusalem, with the Jerusalem Cross on a Coat of Arms defacing (the technical term) either the Red or the Blue Ensign, that Coat of Arms itself being surmounted by Saint Edward's Crown as still shown on police cap badges and other things in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The continued use of the ancestral title "King of Jerusalem" by the Head of the House of Hapsburg could have been tolerated in the way that the use of the ancestral title "King of England, Scotland, Ireland and France" by the Head of the House of Wittelsbach is tolerated.
Just think of the problems that would have been prevented.
Meanwhile, a treaty with Jordan, indeed! Why did we ever leave what, after the manner of British Guyana or British Honduras, ought most obviously to have been called British Syria? Only because we were bombed out by the founders of modern terrorism. Those did not go on to found the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. But even so.
The whole of the British Mandate of Palestine ought to have become a Dominion called the Kingdom of Jerusalem, with the Jerusalem Cross on a Coat of Arms defacing (the technical term) either the Red or the Blue Ensign, that Coat of Arms itself being surmounted by Saint Edward's Crown as still shown on police cap badges and other things in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The continued use of the ancestral title "King of Jerusalem" by the Head of the House of Hapsburg could have been tolerated in the way that the use of the ancestral title "King of England, Scotland, Ireland and France" by the Head of the House of Wittelsbach is tolerated.
Just think of the problems that would have been prevented.
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