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...quarter of a century ago, Ibn Saud's warriors thundered westward out of the central Arabian desert, sacked the town of Taif and marauded through the Hejaz. Relentlessly, Ibn Saud's men drove Sherif Hussein, ruler of the kingdom, out of the Hejaz, and the holy city of Mecca. Hussein, a haughty old man who was head of the Hashemite clan, went into bitter exile in Cyprus. He filled his two sons, who were to become King Abdullah of Jordan and King Feisal I of Iraq, with hatred of the usurper. Abdullah's son Talal, then...
Visiting one of the factories in the Buffalo, N.Y. area, Prince Sultan Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia found just what he wanted on a jukebox assembly line. He picked out six of the biggest mechanical marvels and had them shipped home to his palace...
Abdul Aziz ibn Saud (71), King of Saudi Arabia, adds up, statistically, to nine old battle wounds, some 40 sons, and 750,000 barrels of crude oil which Saudi Arabia produces daily. In ideas, he adds up to hatred of the Jews, strict devotion to the letter of the Mohammedan religion, and friendship for the U.S., though he is furious at President Truman's support of Israel. Ibn Saud used to live off tolls he collected from Mecca pilgrims, but the Arabian-American Oil Co. proved even more lucrative, made Ibn Saud one of the world's richest...
SAUDI ARABIA (estimated pop. 3,500,000): desert domain of KING IBN SAUD, 71, who took parts of it by force in 1925 from Hussein, the Sherif of Mecca and Abdullah's father; in theory, a theocracy; in fact, an absolute monarchy. Member of the Arab League. Ibn Saud's main income: $100 million yearly in royalties for oil concessions to Aramco. Army: 15,000, plus tribal irregulars. At Dhahran: important U.S. air base...
...confused with Emir Feisal, viceroy of Hejaz, second son of King Ibn Saud...