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...earned a little rest, now I'm going to vegetate in Sussex." Instead the Earl was entrusted with a series of missions in the Near East extremely important to the British Government, which needed to impress the late Turkish President Kamal Atatürk and tough King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Ibn Saud dined with a woman for the first time in his life when he sat down with the Countess of Athlone. Tactful "Aunt Alice" (to George VI) veiled herself like a model Mohammedan woman while in Arabia. (Back home she mildly startled England by becoming...
During the struggle Adolf Hitler feted at Berchtesgaden with lavish honors swarthy envoys of King Ibn Saud, the potent super-Sheik who in the last generation has carved out in Arabia a kingdom roughly one-quarter as large as the U. S. After high German and British bids for Saudi Arabia's oil were in, Japan bid frantically still higher. Standard bid low but kept reminding the King of what German or Japanese-or even British-agents might soon be doing to disrupt his realm if let in on the ground floor. When he finally closed with Standard...
...beards and assume native dress. Jidda, however, had no terrors last week for smooth-shaven, cosmopolitan Bert Fish, a wealthy Florida real-estate operator who several times circled the globe before he became finance director of the Democratic National Committee, thence broke into diplomacy. To meet him King Ibn Saud went down from Mecca for a day and Prince Feisal, second of His Majesty's 20-odd sons, offered a sumptuous banquet...
...wives, he belongs to a most ascetic Moslem sect, the Wahabis,and his courtiers explain: "Our King has never had more than four wives at any one time." Bert Fish last week voiced hopes "for the personal happiness of Your Majesty and the prosperity of your people," presented Ibn Saud with a silver-framed photograph of President Roosevelt. Before returning to Cairo, the U. S. Minister will travel narrowly in Saudi Arabia, widely in the Sudan and Upper Egypt...
Nazi rumor had it last week that stubborn Ibn Saud, most listened-to of Arab nationalist leaders, and Great Britain, most respected of Western powers in the Near East, were on the outs. The Nazis, in fact, wanted it believed that His Majesty was so exasperated by British "broken promises" in the-Near East that hereafter Arab nationalists in general and Ibn Saud in particular would come to Rome and Berlin for help and guidance. Although a discreet silence was kept over what, if anything, Führer Hitler promised Khalid al Hud and vice versa, it was news simply...