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...Ibn Saud, Guardian of the Holy Places, King of Saudi Arabia, left his palace at Riyadh for a gazelle-&-bustard shoot in the flinty wilderness to the north. With him he took falcons, Ford convertibles and 2,000 attendants. At the green oasis of Hafar-el-Ats the hunting party pitched its tents, unrolled its rugs, settled down for a fat taste of the patriarchal monarch's favorite pastime...
Fate. No mere whim but something more like destiny had whisked the Generals from Cairo to the arid heart of the Middle East. Aboard the transport they had stowed 3,000 lb. of pretty things: automatic rifles, ammunition, blowtorches, helmets, other samples of freshly arrived Lend-Lease for Ibn Saud...
Search. When the U.S. Generals took off from Cairo with their wampum, they naturally assumed the King was in his capital. But when they arrived at Abadan on the Persian Gulf, the Generals learned that the King had gone ahunting. By the time they spotted Ibn Saud's party they had wandered 1,100-odd air miles...
...restless Saudi Arabia sits the brooding figure of Ibn Saud, dominant leader of the Moslem world, while the U.S. undertakes for the first time to challenge British dominance in Middle Eastern oil (TIME...
Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia gave President Roosevelt (through visiting Princes Feisal and Khalid) a three-foot sword with a diamond-studded grip and curved blade of Damascus steel...