Word: saud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Electronic Conspiracy. Worst of all. his old ally. King Saud. whose money used to fuel Nasser's shrill pan-Arabism. spent all week conferring warmly with Jordan's young King Hussein in Amman. Only eight months ago, Hussein joined Syria and Saudi Arabia in putting their armies under the joint command of an Egyptian general. By last week the joint command had collapsed. Almost the first thing Saud asked on his arrival was what Hussein was doing about removing Egyptian-backed subversives. Hussein responded by demanding the recall of the Egyptian military attaché in Amman, Lieut. Colonel...
...week's end Saud departed in his Convair in a flurry of gifts given and accepted, topped by Hussein's gift of a $350.000 twin-engined Vickers Varsity for Saud's personal use. Behind him Saud left a communique, clothed in the exquisite evasions of Arab courtesy, in which the two Kings declared their joint devotion to "military collaboration among the four Arab countries," their enmity for Israel, their "adoption of the positive neutrality policy and the rejection of all foreign pacts...
...dead? For one, an increased Arab concern over Egypt's President Nasser and his involvement with Russia. For another, the slow recognition that the Eisenhower Doctrine is genuinely intended to help the Middle Eastern nations to preserve their independence and viability. With Saudi Arabia's King Saud shifting his considerable weight to the side of his fellow kings in Iraq and Jordan, the four Moslem pact countries suddenly found that they could safely reassert their common concern against the Communist threat and their membership in a useful instrumentality that did not compromise their independence...
...turn to in moments of crisis. But Anderson also has a firsthand knowledge not only of the U.S.'s defenses but of the perils and opportunities of cold war; e.g., last summer President Eisenhower secretly sent Anderson to the Middle East to pave the way for King Saud's U.S. visit, which in turn paid massive premiums during the recent Jordanian crisis...
...unshaven, holding hands and eating ice cream, are not highly esteemed as fighting men. They are sloppy and undisciplined, and their presence had always been much more of a threat to Jordan than to Israel. The troops' departure was speeded by Hussein's influential new ally, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, who persuaded both Syria and Egypt that it would be better for the Syrians...