Word: saud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago. Instead of one Arab nation, so far there have emerged from the old Ottoman confines five major states: Saudi Arabia, the Yemen, Trans-Jordan, Palestine, Iraq. Lebanon and Syria are soon to come to independent statehood. Of these, only Saudi Arabia, ruled by strong-willed King Ibn Saud, can really call its soul...
Birthday presents received by 42-year-old Bertie included: a smoking cabinet with pipes and Virginia cigarets from his daughters; four magnificent Arabian steeds from King Ibn Saud of Saudi-Arabia; a telegram from Adolf Hitler...
...Egyptian Mohammedan pilgrims made its way to Mecca, bringing gifts of money, grain and a newly woven black brocade carpet to cover Mecca's sacred, silver-incrusted Black Stone, a meteorite supposed to have fallen in Adam's time. To protect the Egyptian pilgrims from Ibn Saud's marauding Wahabi warriors went each year a company of Egyptian soldiers and a military band. In 1926 King Ibn Saud objected to the troops. His ascetic Wahabis said they objected to the whole caravan and especially the band. The Wahabis attacked the pilgrim caravan, killed an Egyptian officer...
Thereafter Egypt's King Fuad refused to recognize the new Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, stopped the grain and money gifts to Mecca. The valuable Egyptian pilgrim traffic to Mecca fell off sharply. Last month, just before King Fuad died, King Ibn Saud maneuvered Egypt's then Premier Aly Maher Pasha into new negotiations between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. From his deathbed Fuad, also anxious to patch the quarrel since he still hoped to be named Caliph of all Islam,* fostered the secret negotiations...
Last week, with Fuad's body new in its grave, Egypt agreed to recognize the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Ibn Saud guaranteed the safety of the annual Egyptian pilgrimage to Mecca. Economically, each country will enjoy a "most-favored-nation" status with the other...