Word: saud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks between the seizure and the Israeli invasion Saud kept a top aide shuttling to Cairo to urge Nasser toward moderation, and sent private word to Eisenhower that he had counsel to give. Former Secretary of the Navy Robert Anderson was dispatched on a hush-hush trip to Riyadh. Baud's counsel: Western intransigence was forcing Nasser into the arms of the Communists. Simultaneously. Saud began a gingerly effort to organize a loose association of Arab leaders which, while not opposing Nasser, still called for restraint. Saud found common cause for unity even with his old Hashemite enemy, King...
Publicly, Saud loyally backed up Nasser's Suez seizure ("I am with Egypt with all I possess," Saud cabled), helped him out by giving him $25 million in dollars in exchange for Egyptian pounds. But privately, Saud told Nasser of his annoyance that he had seized the canal without letting his allies know. The Saud money which used to be so lavishly spent on promoting Nasser's schemes throughout the Middle East suddenly was cut off. When Nasser called for a general Arab strike to protest the Suez conference in London, only Saud declined to participate. Some Egyptians...
Moderate Voice. When the Anglo-French attack on Suez came, Saud, in the opinion of U.S. observers, did what he had to do-and no more. He closed down the pipeline to Bahrein (a British protectorate), banned sale of Saudi oil to British or French buyers, broke relations with Britain and France, allowed Nasser to use Saudi airfields to fly his Russian jets and bombers to safety, and offered Saudi troops (Nasser declined them as unneeded). In return, he had one urgent favor to ask of Nasser: that he ask the Syrians not to blow up Tapline, the pipeline that...
...suffering from loss of oil revenues. Iraq's revenues are down 75%, Kuwait's by 40%, Saudi Arabia's by about one-third. The cut hurts the Saudis seriously, since they have spent their revenues up to the point of overdraft. The U.S. fully expects King Saud to ask for aid, and expects to give...
...Left Out. In Cairo last week. Nasser acted like a man frantically afraid he was being left out. With Saud about to arrive, he hastily called his ally, Premier Sabri el Assali of Syria. Young King Hussein flew over from Jordan. Nasser's purpose: to talk them into replacing the subsidy Britain has for so long paid Jordan to support its Arab legion and base troops there. Nasser obviously feared that, with U.S. help under the Eisenhower doctrine. Saud might do it alone, forming a U.S.-backed partnership with Jordan that had no place for Nasser. It took Nasser...