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...years, as he watched his 40-odd sons (the exact number has never been reliably checked) grow to strapping manhood, Saudi Arabia's wily and sentimental old King Ibn Saud cherished a wish-to unite one of them with a daughter of his old friend and champion, Premier Riad El Solh of Lebanon. After El Solh fell before an assassin's gun (in 1951), Ibn Saud sent his boy Prince Sultan, 29, to offer sympathy and a small token of affection ($79,000 in cash) to the Lebanese Premier's widow...
...bullet that killed Lebanon's first and greatest Premier, brilliant, little Riad el Solh (TIME, July 30, 1951), distressed the generous heart of old Ibn Saud, autocrat of Saudi Arabia. The old lion of the desert could always count on an ally when El Solh was representing Lebanon. Ibn Saud wept and vowed to look after his old friend's widow and four daughters. Tragically in the patriarchal Arab world, El Solh died without leaving...
...Middle East, different from the passionate, but more governable nationalism of Abdullah's own youth. Abdullah scoffed at threats, walked, unconcerned and freely, among his people. Last week, as he visited the Mosque of the Rock in Jerusalem, he was talking about the murder of Syria's Riad el Solh, who was assassinated a few days before (see below). Said Abdullah scornfully: "If Riad had come to Jerusalem, as I asked him, he would not be dead...
Among the last of King Abdullah's official visitors last week was a stocky, cigar-smoking man with a tarboosh tilted jauntily over a blunt, puckish face. He was Riad Bey el Solh, 57, one of the Middle East's shrewdest politicians and Lebanon's first premier when the little country became independent...
...Francisco, Moslem Princess Fathia of Egypt, 19, displeased her brother, Egypt's King Farouk, by marrying Riad Ghali, an Egyptian commoner and a Coptic Christian. Queen Mother Nazli, who has been employing the bridegroom as a political adviser, said that she approved of the marriage...