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Their decision to subdue Serraj dates from the Cairo conference of Arab leaders when Arabia's King Saud, fresh from his U.S. visit, pointedly lectured Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly on the importance of fighting Communist infiltration. Emboldened by Saud's advice, portly, opportunistic Shukri el Kuwatly went back to Damascus, called in Chief of Staff Tewfiq Nizam el Din, and drew up orders transferring some 120 pro-Serraj army officers to out-of-the-way posts. For Serraj himself, Kuwatly and Nizam el Din chose an ironically suitable post: Syrian representative to the joint Arab...
...American Guild of Variety Artists slapped the name of Saudi Arabia's non-union King Saud (TIME, Jan. 28) on its "unfair list."* Saud's misdeed consisted of his commanding an Egyptian acrobatic troupe, now playing in his desert kingdom, to stay for some more performances, thus preventing the alley-oop specialists from keeping an imminent engagement...
...becoming more and more difficult to be both an "Eisenhower Republican" and a Jew. If the Administration continues to maintain its present policy of possible sanctions against Israel and just a slap on the wrist towards Nasser, Saud and the other decadent Arab leaders, it will have the unfortunate effect of driving us into the arms of the Democrats...
...Cairo radio shrilled that Saudi Arabia would prevent Israeli shipping from passing through the Gulf of Aqaba. If true (and at week's end the Saudis had neither confirmed nor denied), this was a double challenge to the U.S. because it 1) considers Saudi Arabia's King Saud a force for stability and order in the Mideast, and 2) has pledged itself to the principle of free and innocent passage in the Gulf of Aqaba...
Crown Prince Faisal, brother of King Saud, arrived today for talks with Nasser on action to keep the Israelis from using the Aqaba Gulf as a channel for high seas commerce. "We accept no bargaining on this point," he told newsmen. "We will fight every effort to decrease the Arabs' sovereignty over their territorial waters...