Word: saud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Serious Blunder." Lebanon's Foreign Minister Charles Malik, the U.S.'s staunchest friend among Arab politicians, felt compelled to announce that Lebanon opposed the use of force against Syria. That much courted Arab potentate, King Saud, passing luxuriously through Beirut en route to the waters of Baden-Baden, felt the same way, and though the State Department, in beating a later retreat, indignantly denied that King Saud had personally advised the Eisenhower Administration to take it easy, the denial was only narrowly true...
...fact, Charles Malik, flying to the U.S., announced that he had been charged by his Chief of State, "in agreement with King Saud, to intervene during my visit to Washington with President Eisenhower and Mr. Dulles to obtain assurances that the U.S. will not use force in Syria." In Iraq, the only Arab nation formally connected by pact to the West, the controlled press took up the cry, as Baghdad's Al Akhbar warned that the U.S. would commit "the most serious blunder" if it treated Syria as hostile to its neighbors...
Profitable Inconvenience. Willy Brennecke, general manager of the dignified old (90 years) Schloss-Hotel Hahnhof, agreed to evict his regular guests to make room for the new visitor-Saudi Arabia's oil-rich and autocratic King Saud. It would be inconvenient, but inconveniences could be tolerated in Baden-Baden for a party prepared to pay $10,000 a day. While Willy mobilized, other Baden-Baden innkeepers embarked on the difficult task of persuading their own guests to double up in bathless bedrooms in order to take care of the princely overflow...
Over the Middle East last week hung a cloud of fear-a vague foreboding not felt since the days of the Suez war. Under its influence the Lebanese, alarmed by repeated discoveries of smuggled arms, reinforced their police patrols along the Syrian borders. Under its influence King Saud, accompanied by 50 retainers in two Convairs, flew unexpectedly into Beirut to see Lebanon's President Camille Chamoun and Premier Sami Solh...
...sordid dealings with Dio and other racketeers, Hoffa's close friend and unofficial chief of staff, Harold Gibbons, Teamster boss in St. Louis, spoke the defense that seems to satisfy a lot of Teamsters: "Is it all right for Dulles to deal with a whore like Saud, or a bum like Franco to get his objectives? Hoffa found he had to work with Dio to bring his people into the union. When you work with a man to win an objective, you can't turn around and spit in his face. Working with Dio for a certain goal...