Word: saud
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Said Sir Percy: "Advices from Jerusalem should be regarded with caution. . . . It is certain that a rupture with Great Britain would be extremely repugnant to Ibn Saud...
...London the first word of clear council to cut through the babbling of the press came from Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, who was the first British High Commissioner to Irak (1920-23) and has treated personally with Ibn Saud...
...radio antenna sprouts from one of the squat mud turrets of Ibn Saud's mud-walled Palace, at Riyadh, his Capital. Unfortunately, however, even such modern equipment could not enable the Sultan to know, last week, what the cables of the world press were flashing about his reputed "Holy War." Had he known, Ibn Saud might have smiled in grim derision at the following reports...
...Jewish Telegraph Agency alarmed from Jerusalem: "A force led by Sheik Ed Dowilsh with 1,400 camels is marching toward Irak. . . . Twenty-two [British] airplanes and seven tanks have been despatched to the frontier of Transjordania to protect the territory from . . . Ibn Saud...
...Englishmen began to take serious heed when the Manchester Guardian cut loose from decorum and stated that it would be "no picnic" to whip Ibn Saud. Meanwhile the British Laborite Daily Herald cried in frank alarm: ". . . This country is on the verge of war not with a few scattered tribes but with a monarch who has proved his ability and military strength and whose easy defeat cannot be assumed...