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...President and the Secretary of State. Highlight of the week was Ike's high-level, white-tie stag dinner at the White House for some 60 guests, including a dozen or so oilmen and bankers-and not including newsmen. There followed a heavy, split-second schedule for Saud; every moment away from business he spent in side trips, e.g., a wreath for the Unknown Soldier, a tour of the U.S. Naval Academy, a basketball game...
...blowing brass bands, the lofty pomp and the great sweep of social events never succeeded in drowning out. nor even interrupting, the central purpose of Saud's visit: high-stakes diplomacy...
...week's end a cheerful Foster Dulles reported that the talks were going "extremely well." He was elated to learn that Saud had come to the U.S. to speak not merely for himself but as a representative of Egypt, Syria and Jordan as well. And since, as Secretary Dulles assured newsmen, the King "very definitely" had got a much clearer understanding of the Eisenhower doctrine and the new role that the U.S. aims to play in the Middle East, Saud's trip may well foretell a more stable climate in that area...
...quick little public duster that whirled around King Saud's visit built up while he was at sea and blew out shortly after he stepped ashore. It was nothing compared with the storm blowing up from pulpit, editorial page, civic organizations and even state legislatures over a visit tentatively scheduled for April by Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. By last week it was plain that, foreign policy or no, Tito was persona non grata to a vociferous segment of the American public...
Nobody had good words for Tito, but the visit did have its defenders. In Mayfield, Ky., the Rev. Frank Cayce asked his Episcopal congregation: "Why shouldn't Eisenhower have Saud and Tito as guests? Didn't Christ associate with lepers, whores and publicans?" Editorialized the Denver Post: "A lot of Americans probably never have understood the importance of Tito as a fracture in the monolithic structure of international Communism. If so, the fault lies with our policy strategists, who have not explained the facts of the Communist struggle for power for general consumption...