Word: saud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saudi Arabia. I had long hoped to see an article such as yours. It is long, long overdue. But whose fault is it that the money is being squandered by men with no civic consciousness? The Americans in the Arabian American Oil Co. are responsible for King Saud's position, and, when there was a chance to start him off on the right track with his millions, we lacked the faith in ourselves...
With a few figures, your "Decay in the Desert" makes it startlingly clear why King Saud trembles with anger and fear at the very thought of Israel. This young, vigorous neighboring democracy is a palpable threat to his disease-festered, corruption-ridden, feudal police-state...
...Among recent visitors' Bulganin, Khrushchev, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, Burma's U Nu. Canada's Lester Pearson, Red China's Madame...
...military aid if only Jordan would sign. When he tried to bulldoze Jordan's Premier, the Premier resigned (TIME, Dec. 26). Jordan's young, Harrow-educated King Hussein quickly appointed a new government to accept Templer's proposals, but already agitators were stirring. Ambitious King Saud of Saudi Arabia maintains scores of agents provacateurs to promote his influence in Jordan; Communists, though small in number, know how to guide mobs...
Probably the world's top Saudi Arabia authority is H. St. John Philby, the British Orientalist who served for years as King Ibn Saud's adviser. Recently in the London Sunday Times Philby delivered a harsh judgment on what he called "the Scandal of Saudi Arabia." A few roads, waterworks at Riyadh, Mecca and other places, some hospitals, a few public buildings, and the 350-mile railway that Arabian American Oil Co. built to connect Saud's capital with the Persian Gulf are about the only constructive achievements that he can find to list to the regime...