Word: saud
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...reward for the Hashemites' services, Britain's Colonial Secretary, Winston Churchill, made Abdullah Emir of Trans-Jordan and made his brother Feisal King of Iraq. The boys had their troubles. Their father, Hussein, Sherif of Mecca, was attacked by his old rival, Ibn Saud. In the end, Ibn Saud drove the Sherif out of his domain, annexed Mecca and the surrounding district to his holdings in Arabia...
...that moon never rose. Ibn Saud, his family's old enemy, did not like the scheme, and neither did Egypt's Farouk, who dreamed, with his politicians, of uniting the Arab world under Egypt's leadership. Abdullah came to be almost universally disliked by other Arab leaders, denounced for his pro-Western stand...
...connection with the British activities in Iran are quite accurate, but you actually cannot blame the State Department since they . . . tried to persuade Mr. Attlee during his visit to Washington approximately three months ago to reach an agreement with Iran similar to the agreement reached with King Ibn Saud by Aramco...
Died. Prince Mansour Ibn Abdul Aziz, 29, Defense Minister of Saudi Arabia, a favorite son of King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud; of uremia; in Neuilly, France. In 1945, with his father, he was entertained by Franklin Roosevelt aboard the U.S.S. Quincy in the Red Sea, was long considered the likely successor to Saudi Arabia's throne...
...long period of good feeling-rather than to haggle and build up resentment. It had not forgotten that accumulated resentment caused Mexico to expropriate U.S. oil companies in 1938. It also knew that Jersey Standard's generous 1945 settlement with Venezuela had built immense good will. Ibn Saud also was shrewd enough to learn his own lesson from the Mexican affair: Mexico's oil production plummeted after it drove the U.S. companies out. And Ibn Saud, with no one else to turn to but Britain, which he dislikes, and Russia, which he fears, wanted to keep Aramco happy...