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King Ibn Saud claims Buraimi as part of Saudi Arabia; and Britain, as "protector" of Trucial Oman, claims it for a Trucial Oman Sheik and the Sultan of Muscat. Since the summer of 1952, the claimants had fought their siege with angry words and glowering looks. Ibn Saud sent Emir Turki Ibn Utaishan to occupy Buraimi, supposedly in answer to an appeal for protection by the villagers. Britain countered by stationing three young officers and a batch of Trucial Oman levies in a string of Beau Geste mud forts sprinkled around the oasis, to harass and starve the Emir into...
...caravan lumbered into Buraimi bearing 40 Saudi officials, clerks and armed men headed by a doughty Arabian named Emir Turki Ibn Utaishan. They started wooing the bewildered inhabitants and chiefs with lavish feasts, silver riyals and sweet talk. Immediately, the Trucial Sheik of Abu Dhabi and the Sultan of Muscat appealed to their "protector" Great Britain to repel the "invaders...
...Late frosts have delayed new potatoes. Manchester, which usually consumes 1,500 tons of potatoes daily, got none one day last week. Liverpool is using its last potato reserves. When the food cuts were announced, Britons were promised more corned meats with a controlled price of 36?. The first muscat grapes appeared last week at about $16 a lb.; melons are still $10 each, peaches and nectarines $4 each. The egg diet is being supplemented by gull eggs at 25? each, turkey eggs at 60? each...
...nations may send at least 100 annually to the U. S. Bhutan (in the Himalayas), the British Cameroons, Liechtenstein, Muscat, Nauru, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Yap and ten others sent none...
...Franklin Roosevelt's desk, when reporters trooped into his office one day last week, lay a wicked-looking gold-handled seven-inch knife-a "yataghan," presented to him by the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. Said the President, waving it over his head: "I can put it in the wall at 30 paces." Replied New York Daily News Reporter Doris Fleeson: "How far down Pennsylvania Avenue can you throw...