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Bubbling with a champagne sparkle of mellower, sweeter, vintage is the tale of a Syrian from the sidewalks of New York,†† who went to visit the great, romantic chieftain of Arabians, Ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd and King of the Hejaz. Before a backdrop colorful with the picturesqueness of desert life strides a stalwart, six-foot Sultan, who scorns and rejects Occidental customs, yet is shrewd enough to entertain visiting British statesmen with their favorite brands of whiskey, mineral water, and even "kippers." When the Britons are gone, all residual whiskey & soda & kippers are abandoned on the desert...
...Such as Sheik Ahmed ibn Jabir al Subah, ruler of Kuwait...
Said Sir Percy: "Advices from Jerusalem should be regarded with caution. . . . It is certain that a rupture with Great Britain would be extremely repugnant to Ibn Saud...
...London the first word of clear council to cut through the babbling of the press came from Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, who was the first British High Commissioner to Irak (1920-23) and has treated personally with Ibn Saud...
...Finally, when the "Holy War" had been fully exploited by Jew correspondents of Jerusalem and by sundry gentile newsgatherers in Irak, a statement forthcame from Ibn Saud. Through his representative at Cairo, Sheik Hafiz Wahba, the Sultan positively denied that he was making war upon the British Mandates, and stated that he was doing his best to quiet certain pugnacious bands of his tribesmen subjects who had been raiding along the frontier...