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...more this week at the social season linked delicately to an extension of U.S. diplomatic activity on many fronts. Heading the calendar: a three day state visit, beginning Jan. 30, by one of the world's last absolute monarchs, Saudi Arabia's bespectacled ghutra-draped King Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz al Faisal al Saud. Scheduled before Suez to visit Washington for discussions on the U.S. air base at Dhahran, influential King Saud comes after Suez for conferences of a nature far more serious to the Middle East in general...
...This story jibes essentially with the earliest and standard account of Mohammed's life (by Ibn Ishaq-8th century), but the tone of the book's 16-page biography might well give offense to devout Moslems...
...Araby are as familiar as baseball statistics to a U.S. teenager. He is a member of the proud and once mighty Hashemite clan, which held sway over holy Mecca for 38 generations and trace their ancestry to the Prophet's great-grandfather. Ever since the austere warriors of Ibn Saud stormed out of Arabia's deserts in 1919 and drove them into exile, the Hashemites have found intrigue a matter of simple survival amidst ambitious rivals...
...meeting in Karachi, called on Nasser to ask for his cooperation in ending France's agony in North Africa. Cairo newspapers were elated and inflated by the visit of so important a Western statesman on such a mission. In Cairo Pineau also saw Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud and Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly, whose Radio Damascus works closely with the Voice of the Arabs and not long ago was urging Moroccan rebels to "kill those who are killing you. Spare not their women and children, for they spare not yours." In recent months, following...
Probably the world's top Saudi Arabia authority is H. St. John Philby, the British Orientalist who served for years as King Ibn Saud's adviser. Recently in the London Sunday Times Philby delivered a harsh judgment on what he called "the Scandal of Saudi Arabia." A few roads, waterworks at Riyadh, Mecca and other places, some hospitals, a few public buildings, and the 350-mile railway that Arabian American Oil Co. built to connect Saud's capital with the Persian Gulf are about the only constructive achievements that he can find to list to the regime...