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...could you stir us up this way with the provocative information that wealthy King Saud's gift to Ike was a secret [Feb. 18]? We keep imagining a locked room somewhere in the White House, unknown even to Mamie, in which is hidden a bevy of veiled and beauteous dancing girls...
...secret is out. Saud gave Ike a scimitar in a lavishly jeweled scabbard. Ike gave Saud an original painting of a Colorado landscape by a well-known amateur artist, bearing the initials D.D.E. in its corner, plus a desk...
Cairo's press trumpeted that the meeting was to be "the turning point in the history of the Arab world." But King Saud had lingered on in Libya, and his plane touched down at Cairo's airfield a negligent six hours late. The Convair's automatic steps failed to function, and Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser had to wait an awkward several moments more before Saud stepped down into his welcoming embrace...
...once automatic alignment of Saud and Nasser was in no better working order than the automatic steps. All the way back from his warming visit to President Dwight Eisenhower, Saud had been proclaiming his faith in Ike. "I am convinced that the future of the Arab world must be founded on its friendship with America," he said. Last week, as Nasser, Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly and Jordan's young King Hussein gathered in Cairo to hear his report, Saud was a frank advocate of the U.S. position, said an informed Egyptian. "Saud spoke repeatedly...
About Ike and Saud conferring at the White House and that picture hanging on the wall in Ike's office [Feb. 11]. Is it Mecca? Does it hang there all the time or just on certain occasions...