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Pleasures & Palaces. In the sheikdoms and kingdoms of the Arab world, in palaces and refugee camps, he updated the Arabian Nights into Alsop's Fables. In the new palace at Jeddah ("the house that Aramco built"), guarded by blackamoors with gilded scimitars, King Saud of Saudi Arabia entertained 400 dinner guests at once, headed by little Imam Ahmed of Yemen, "who waggles his big, richly turbaned head like a teetotum in a sort of passion of politeness." While the guests drank orange pop, "a court bard, descended straight from the poetic line that sang before Agamemnon at Mycenae . . . recites...
Reasonably dispassionate guessers figure the royal household plus retainers and courtiers in the neighborhood of 10,000 persons. Whenever the King's own household makes one of its periodic moves from Riyadh to Jeddah or Medina, its central figures are airlifted by the Saudi Arabian government airline, which owns 27 aircraft. A royal move means not only that all scheduled operations are canceled but also that every available aircraft...
...Green (son of the late Hetty Green), Charles N. Ams (whose collection of Gambia stamps is second to no other collection of Gambia stamps), Alfred F. Lichtenstein, Swiss stamp collector, Miss Ellen F. Nason of Claremont, N. H., collector of Arabian stamps, with all the special issues for Jeddah and Nejd -these and many more sent their best. But one and all, when they beheld a black and magenta stamp lying by itself in a case ten times too big for it, bowed in reverence. This stamp bears upon its breast in bold letters the words "One Cent." Its owner...
Meantime, King Ali of the Hejaz retired to Jeddah, near the sea, in order to prevent bloodshed. Future developments were uncertain...
...offered peace. His letters were torn up; his messengers detained. Many Meccans left their city. Bedouins were reported to have sacked the Royal palace. From Tranjordania, 7000 "Volunteers" set off to help Ali Raise the seige of Jeddah, whence came a plea for British intervention from Mohammed Bey Tawall, head of the Jeddah Council of Notables. Said Mohammed: "Surely Britain has some responsibility-she put Husein upon his throne...