Word: saud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reward for the Hashemites' services, Britain's Colonial Secretary, Winston Churchill, made Abdullah Emir of Trans-Jordan and made his brother Feisal King of Iraq. The boys had their troubles. Their father, Hussein, Sherif of Mecca, was attacked by his old rival, Ibn Saud. In the end, Ibn Saud drove the Sherif out of his domain, annexed Mecca and the surrounding district to his holdings in Arabia...
...that moon never rose. Ibn Saud, his family's old enemy, did not like the scheme, and neither did Egypt's Farouk, who dreamed, with his politicians, of uniting the Arab world under Egypt's leadership. Abdullah came to be almost universally disliked by other Arab leaders, denounced for his pro-Western stand...
SAUDI ARABIA (estimated pop. 3,500,000): desert domain of KING IBN SAUD, 71, who took parts of it by force in 1925 from Hussein, the Sherif of Mecca and Abdullah's father; in theory, a theocracy; in fact, an absolute monarchy. Member of the Arab League. Ibn Saud's main income: $100 million yearly in royalties for oil concessions to Aramco. Army: 15,000, plus tribal irregulars. At Dhahran: important U.S. air base...
...confused with Emir Feisal, viceroy of Hejaz, second son of King Ibn Saud...
...connection with the British activities in Iran are quite accurate, but you actually cannot blame the State Department since they . . . tried to persuade Mr. Attlee during his visit to Washington approximately three months ago to reach an agreement with Iran similar to the agreement reached with King Ibn Saud by Aramco...