Word: saud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eucalyptus trees that screen the chocolate-colored walls of Al Zuhour palace from public view. Al Zu-hour palace is the birthplace of Iraq's 22-year-old Hashemite King Feisal, whose line has waged a blood feud intermittently for over half a century with the usurping Sauds of Arabia. But last week, for seven busy and significant days, the palace served as a royal guest house for King Saud of Saudi Arabia...
...round of banquets and state feasts the two Kings, as well as Iraqi Crown Prince Abdul Illah and Iraq's staunchly pro-Western Premier Nuri asSaid, got down to the business at hand: Soviet penetration, via Syria and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, of the Middle East. Saud, who mistrusts the British, watched parades of British-supplied military units, climbed aboard and peered through the hatch of a British Centurion tank. Probably the most significant meeting of the week was a private, unscheduled lunch given for the two monarchs by Premier asSaid at his yellow brick home...
...King Saud prepared to emplane for home, he and Feisal drew up a communique hailing the "new era of cordial relations" between their countries, pledged themselves to "oppose all attempts at foreign interference." From Jordan young King Hussein sent a message of regret that he could not join his fellow Kings, a gambit carefully arranged in advance to demonstrate that Saud, Feisal and Hussein were one for all and all for one, but without jamming the distasteful news too forcibly down Nasser's throat...
...journeyed to Riyadh, where the desert King lectured the two of them like a displeased father and more or less ordered them to stop interfering in Jordan's "strictly internal" affairs. No sooner had they left (without even the formality of the usual communique praising Arab "unity"), than Saud got on the phone again to invite Hussein to Riyadh. Hussein hustled down by air last week, and King Saud gave him a big pep talk on the importance of keeping up the good fight against Communists and extremists. He sent him back to Amman with a large gift...
...Submerge a Feud. Later this month King Saud will visit Baghdad to see Iraq's 22-year-old King Feisal, and perhaps his Hashemite cousin, Hussein of Jordan, too. Together these three Kings control a huge hunk of the Arab Middle East and the vast bulk of its economic resources. If Saud can submerge his old feuds with the Hashemites, an effective counterweight to Nasser (and to his lone ally, Syria) will have been built up in the Arab world itself...