Word: ibn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pledge to a King. President Truman had said that there was no record at the White House of a Roosevelt pledge on Palestine to King Ibn Saud. Truman was right only in the technical sense that the file was next door at the State Department...
...British had been raging since Truman put Prime Minister Attlee on the spot with a public demand that 100,000 Jews be admitted immediately to Palestine. Now the British intimated that if the record was not published by the U.S., they -or Ibn Saud-would publish...
...Arab League's members, the Government of British-sponsored Iraq, filed a "friendly protest" in Washington, objecting that Palestine already had enough "strangers." The Arabs had some reason to be baffled. They had understood that President Roosevelt, at his post-Yalta meeting with Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, had promised not to upset or seriously disturb the Arab position. Now the White House took the ground that since no written record of any such promise existed, the promise did not exist...
Frances P. Bolton, Ohio Congresswoman now exploring the Middle East, told Bagdad reporters that King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia had broken precedent by permitting her, a mere woman, to enter his private council chamber in Riyadh. Said the King: "No tradition should be allowed to stand in the way of good understanding...
Prince Mohamed Ibn-Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia performs his princely functions in a princely manner. With his brothers, he attended the San Francisco Conference in long white robes and created an impression of stateliness and dignity, called on the U.S. State Department, inspected U.S. factories and Niagara Falls, dined with countless Arab-American groups, bought new automobiles, radios, phonographs and typewriters, lived splendidly in an eighth-floor suite at the Waldorf-Astoria...