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Princes and Palestine. Few days before, two main foes of the main Jewish idea had been feted, dined, greeted, and generally given the full red-carpet treatment. The foes: Prince Feisal, Foreign Minister to Saudi Arabia's wily Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, and younger brother Prince Khalid. The grave, observant Arab Princes, ostensibly here to study "Southwest irrigation projects," thus far seemed to be spending a great deal more time with diplomatic bigwigs than in inspecting irrigation ditches...
Since 1933 the California Arabian Standard Oil Co. (owned 50-50 by Standard Oil Co. of California and Texas Co.) has been leasing concessions from Ibn Saud until today it controls an area 60% larger than California (254,000 sq. mi.), including all the promising fields. Now the U.S. Government itself is negotiating with California Arabian Standard and presumably with Ibn Saud's representatives for direct participation in the oil exploitation. This, if it went through, would be historic -for the first time in its history the U.S. Government would embark upon a career as a speculative oil magnate...
Whether the oil deal was imperialism or no, it would bring problems with it: when the U.S. grasps for Arabian oil it also grasps for the Palestine problem, Ibn Saud, Moslems, rabbis...
King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia has a rarely visited kingdom about four times the size of Texas, the right of life & death over 4,000,000 subjects; 1,000 automobiles; some 30 sons. To Washington last week, from Ibn Saud's sand-swept kingdom, came two of the latter-Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Feisal, his brother Prince Khalid-perhaps to discuss oil concessions to the U.S., perhaps to iron out problems concerning Palestine...
Principal stumble points for this dream solution: 1) French interests in Syria and the Lebanon; 2) British mandates in Trans-Jordan and Palestine; 3) Zionism; 4) the still undisclosed attitude of Saudi Arabia's powerful, circumspect Ibn Saud...