Word: arabian
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...Glubb Pasha only a treasonous foreigner who had declined to order his troops to charge straight across Israel. By last fall, when Britain tried to rush its ally Jordan into the anti-Communist Baghdad pact, the wildest forces of Arab nationalism, urged on by Egyptian propaganda and Saudi-Arabian gold, flowed through the little land. Glubb's Legion put down the rioters but only after young (20) King Hussein (who was schooled, like Winston Churchill, at Harrow and Sandhurst) had foresworn the Baghdad pact and some of the Arab Legionnaires had refused to fight against...
...down in the crowded Senate caucus room last week to face the storm over U.S. foreign policy. In charge was Georgia's Walter George, who had called the unusual open session of the Foreign Relations Committee primarily to find out about the off-again, on-again Saudi Arabian tank shipment. But it was obvious from one look at the squall line of Democratic liberals (Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Alabama's John Sparkman, Arkansas' Bill Fulbright) at the end of the committee table-busy conferring around piles of books, maps, clippings and notes-that much more than...
...State, he had the assurance of the military that there was no way of getting them to the Israel border. Was the sale of the tanks related to U.S. maintenance of an air base in Saudi Arabia? "Only in this sense, that if we refused to give the Saudi Arabian government its reasonable requirement in this area, it is probable, at least possible, that our air base agreement would not be renewed...
...affair of the Saudi Arabian tanks is a ludicrous but damaging example of what can happen in a big and complicated government when it is not clearly led and firmly administered from the top. For months, this government has been faced with the dangerous problem of arms shipments to the Middle East. There have been many pronouncements about [it]. How then could it happen that the State Department had forgotten about its own approval of the sale of the Saudi Arabian tanks, that the Defense Department was operating without realizing what a mess the shipment of these arms would...
...policy, the statement of Secretary Dulles at Friday's hearings strikes a note of comparative rationality. Although his views on Russia's sudden change of philosophy appear overly-optimistic, at least his position on the shipment of arms to the Middle East is heartening. While defending the questionable Saudia Arabian tank shipment, he emphasized that arms must not be sent to Israel or to countries directly adjacent because this would precipitate an arms race, in which Israel could not hope to hold her own. Forthright as this statement may be, however, the State Department's encouragement of the shipment...