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...emissaries came from Arabia's Ibn Saud (the new King's old enemy) nor from the Soviet Union (which regards the new British-sponsored state with suspicion). Abdullah I made a polite speech from the throne, carefully avoiding most of the Middle East's hottest issues, whereupon the court and guests proceeded to Marka airfield to review Trans-Jordan's British-trained Arab Legion. Its leader, Glubb Pasha (occidental title: Brigadier John Bagot Glubb, D.S.O., O.B.E.) stood next to His Majesty on the sun-scathed reviewing stand, picturesquely martial in a spiked helmet, with a long...
...been overcome by his avarice. A king who pays his chief of staff $153 month and his soldiers $2 could scarcely ignore the new $4 to $6 million airfield at Dhahran in the rival neighboring kingdom of Saudi Arabia, or the $6 million a year that blear-eyed Ibn Saud gets from U.S. petroleum concessions. Yahya's Yemen has no oil with which to bargain in the bazaars of international high finance, but it is strategically located near the foot of the Red Sea, across the Arabian Peninsula from the Persian Gulf, toward which Russia reaches south and east...
TIME does an excellent job in reporting history but a more questionable one in grading it. In your issue of Oct. 29, you give King Ibn Saud a "flunk" in ancient history, ethnology, and arithmetic. While granting that the King's mathematics seems dubious, I must protest your flunking him in ancient history and ethnology for his statement that the Canaanites were Arabs, as I think most scholars would admit that they were...
...royal excursion to the Hejaz, King Ibn Saud finally put to use the C-47 transport plane which had come as a gift from Franklin Roosevelt...
...Taif the chattering women piled out and into waiting automobiles. Riding past the nose of the plane, each & every one took a bold, veiled look at the Americans, who got a good look too. Then the C-47 went back to fetch the King. Ibn Saud, it was said, right royally enjoyed his first trip aloft...