Word: ibn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...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...
...also fond of automobiles, telephones and radios, all of which he has put to good use in unifying the scattered tribes in the wastes of his domain. When Ibn Saud introduced the telephone, some of Saudi Arabia's more fanatical isolationists cried that it was a work of the devil. Replied Ibn Saud: "Of a certainty if it is the work of the devil, the holy words of the Koran will not pass over it." Holy words passed over the new line in Riyadh to Mecca; the objectors subsided. The money for these innovations comes largely from two sources...
...King's liking for motorcars is one of his bonds with his remarkable British mentor, Harry St. John B. Philby, an unsung "Lawrence of Arabia" who joined Ibn Saud during World War I, turned Moslem afterward, got the Arabian agency for Fords, and has supplied the King with counsel and motorcars ever since. St. John (rhymes with Injun) Philby, quietly unobtrusive amid the splendors of the palace and court at Riyadh, has had much to do with Ibn Saud's rise in the Arab world...
...millions of people in the Occident cannot forget the Arab world because it includes Palestine. Ibn Saud personifies and constantly bespeaks the Arab case for an all-Arab Palestine. The U.S. and British Governments are committed to a Jewish Palestine-not necessarily all-Jewish, but with too many Jews to suit the Arabs, who, having inhabited it for centuries, regard it as one of their lands...