Word: saud
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Since Saudi Arabia has become a cornerstone of the Eisenhower doctrine in the Arab world, this makes it much more difficult for the United States to give Israel the support she demands for her shipping. Those who know King Saud say American pressure on the issue might change him from an influential friend of the United States to a bitter enemy...
...Against Two. Saud reportedly assured his fellow Arabs that Ike had given his personal word that the Israelis would be required to withdraw without conditions, and that U.S. aid under the Eisenhower Doctrine would be unconditional. Saud tried hard to get agreement on a paragraph condemning Communist infiltration in the Middle East and to get Nasser to endorse the Eisenhower plan. In turn, Saud beat down Syrian Kuwatly's attempt to express appreciation of Russian help to the Arab cause, and refused Nasser's plea for support of his plan to block clearance of the Suez Canal...
...tanks, self-propelled artillery, tank destroyers and personnel carriers 75 abreast, over which flew a flight of 15 Ilyushin jet bombers and ten MIGs. "You see, we still do have an army," said one Egyptian major. But after 17 hours of talk, including a private talk between Nasser and Saud that lasted until 3 one morning, the conference dissolved in a mist of platitudes...
...Eisenhower Doctrine by what the kept Cairo press likes to call the "free Arabs"-as opposed to the "kept Arabs" like the Iraqis, who belong to Western pacts. It did not. Nasser refused to accept the Eisenhower Doctrine on the plea that it had not yet been fully explained. Saud refused to condemn it. Result: no mention of the doctrine at all, except an oblique insistence that "the defense of the Arab world should emanate from the Arab nation...
...Plainly, Saud was still wary of Nasser's power over the Arab masses, and did not want a break with him. But the conference might prove to be a turning point in a sense the Cairo press did not intend, for it showed that in the Arab world Nasser could count fully on only one other supporter, Communist-infiltrated Syria...