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...Legion a group of anti-British nationalists formed, similar to the "Free Officers" clique that overthrew Egypt's King Farouk. They found allies against Glubb in Premier Rifai and in Queen Mother Zaine, who has been collecting a $280,000 annual subsidy from Saudi Arabia's King Saud to work against the British position. Last week, with nationalist sentiment running high, the officers forced the young King to choose between General Glubb and his own throne...
...backwoods Bavarian town of Selb one day last week, white-aproned workmen finished wrapping 3, 670 dishes fit for a king. They were the first of four shipments of a 14,680-piece, $113,000 dinner service for Saudi Arabia's King Saud. The manufacturer: West Germany's Rosenthal, the world's No. 1 porcelain maker...
...China. King Saud, whose gold-encrusted china is Rosenthal's biggest order since World War II, had joined an illustrious clientele. Rosenthal has made china for the royal houses of Greece, The Netherlands, Rumania and Iran, for Indian maharajas and Ethiopia's Haile Selassie. In 1952 the company turned out a special order of $8,214.15 worth of crockery for Marshal Tito's wedding. Before Eisenhower left Berlin in 1948, his staff gave him a 130-piece Rosenthal set inscribed with the flaming-sword insignia of SHAEF. Not to be outdone by Western capitalists, Soviet Ambassador Valerian...
...Saudi Arabia. I had long hoped to see an article such as yours. It is long, long overdue. But whose fault is it that the money is being squandered by men with no civic consciousness? The Americans in the Arabian American Oil Co. are responsible for King Saud's position, and, when there was a chance to start him off on the right track with his millions, we lacked the faith in ourselves...
With a few figures, your "Decay in the Desert" makes it startlingly clear why King Saud trembles with anger and fear at the very thought of Israel. This young, vigorous neighboring democracy is a palpable threat to his disease-festered, corruption-ridden, feudal police-state...