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Saudi Arabia (pop. 7,000,000). King Saud, world's most absolute ruler, is strongly antiCommunist. He is pro-U.S., relying for nearly 90% of his revenues on oil from the U.S.-owned Arabian American Oil Co.'s fields. A Nasser ally, he has fought with British over control of neighboring oil sheikdoms. Saud fears that recently Nasser has gone too far, thinks his nationalizing the canal has endangered the King's oil profits. Violently anti-Israeli, Saud is obviously disturbed by Egypt's poor military performance against Israel, also dislikes Nasser's playing...
...guests of Lebanon's President Camille Chamoun, Kings, Presidents and other potentates met secretly in a UNESCO villa on the outskirts of Beirut. Escorted by goggled Lebanese motorcycle cops and gowned Bedouins armed with golden daggers and Tommy guns, Saudi Arabia's King Saud arrived in a heavily curtained Cadillac. Setting aside old blood feuds, Iraq's young King Feisal and his cousin, Jordan's Hussein, Hashemites both, addressed Saud respectfully as "Father." Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly was on hand, freshly back from a visit to Moscow. In this impressive panoply, only Nasser...
...Egyptian air force had shot down 18 Israeli planes and had been "in control of the battlefield" until the "great deception, treachery, perfidy" of Anthony Eden. The fact that none of the other Arab states gave Egypt active military assistance was also, said Nasser, part of Egyptian strategy. "King Saud called me by telephone," said the Egyptian President, "and told me that the Saudi Arabian army and money were at Egypt's service." So, he declared, did Jordan's young King Hussein and Syria's President El Kuwatly. "My answer was that we were worried about Jordan...
...broke into Moslem shops and fought with police; when the police opened fire five died. Some Hindu extremists, organizing a boycott of Moslem rug dealers and lockmakers, shouted that Pakistani agents had "cooked up the whole thing" to embarrass Nehru on the eve of his departure to visit King Saud in the Moslem holy land. Police, some of them dressed as Moslem women, prowled the mosques and bazaars and arrested 500 Moslems...
...that because of Senator John Bricker's repeated assaults on the President's treaty-making power, "our present Administration feels it cannot sign treaties affecting internal problems." The likelier reason, which no one would admit to, is that the U.S. did not wish to offend King Saud, and thereby endanger the Dhahran airbase negotiations or Aram-co's valuable oil interests in Saudi Arabia...