Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Saudi Arabia came the only royalty. Prince Faisal, son of King Ibn Saud, wore a snow-white burnoose and golden head cord, maintained Mohammedan sobriety, but was not above spending an evening with his delegation at the circus in New York...
...donnas" in the world -"there are a great number of prima donnas in the world"-which many interpreted as a swat at Charles de Gaulle, who had refused to meet him at Algiers (TIME, Feb. 26). And in describing his post-Yalta travels he said: "Of the problems of Arabia, I learned more about that whole problem, the Moslem problem, the Jewish problem, by talking with Ibn Saud for five minutes, than I could have learned in exchange of two or three dozen letters...
Invitations went last week to three countries-Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia-which scurried under the wire by March 1, the deadline for war declarations set at Yalta. Syria and Lebanon also beat the deadline, but were not invited (they are still juridically French mandates). Korea's Provisional Government in Chungking tried to get a place by declaring war on Japan, but did not yet rate membership in the United Nations...
...King Ibn Saud of Arabia ("Servant of the Mighty One") walks with a slow, deliberate gait. The nine battle wounds of his youth, even the trouble some one in his groin, have not curbed his legendary virility, but they have reduced his ranging stride. Fortnight ago, when he met President Roosevelt on a U.S. cruiser in the Suez Canal (TIME, March 5), the King looked longingly at the President's well-worn wheelchair...
Hinted the King with Oriental obliqueness: a chair like that would save him many steps in his palace at Riyadh. The President responded with Occidental directness. From belowdecks a spare chair was unearthed, dusted off, ceremoniously presented by the President of the United States to the King of Saudi Arabia...