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Hopes for peace in Palestine centered largely on two men of royal blood who hurried by plane through the Middle East airlanes last week. One was earnest, Godfearing Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte; the other, mercurial King Abdullah of Transjordan, who was trying to unite the Arab world behind him to treat with-or fight-the Jews of Palestine...
...Arab answer to Bernadotte would depend, in the long run, on the outcome of King Abdullah's trip. Abdullah visited his old enemy, King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, for the first time since Ibn Saud kicked Abdullah's family off the throne of the Hejaz...
...House of Saud and the lion cubs of Hussein [Abdullah's father] are one hand whose bonds in Allah will never be dissevered . . . They are the roaring lions and the suns at forenoon . . . Palestine is a bloody finger whose illness may be cured by resolution . . . Neither the Security Council nor falling bombs nor fire nor steel can dissuade us . . . We shield ourselves with Allah and the Koran...
...kings issued a joint statement in the same vein: no compromise. But on the next leg of his journey, to visit his nephew Regent Abdul Illah of Iraq, Abdullah dropped a hint to the Arab press to stop the chest-thumping which makes compromise impossible. Said Abdullah: "The significant feature of the situation is not so much a matter of the Arab states being against the Jews but rather against the supporters of world Jewry in the international sphere. Therefore, I wish to advise the Arab press not to be too optimistic . . . not too pessimistic...
...Asking that peace proposals be submitted to the British, King Abdullah and Jewish Prime Minister Ben-Gurion...