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...King Saud is not a 20th century king...
...20th century king. He is a Neanderthal king." Though many would agree with this description of Saudi Arabia's crusty old monarch, there was some surprise at the source: Prince Talal Ibn Abdulaziz, half brother of Saud, former Minister of Finance in Saud's government...
Last week Talal, 32, and half a dozen other princely Saudi rebels, showed up in Beirut to declare open war on King Saud, and on the feudal system by which Saudi Arabia is ruled. For years, said Talal at a press conference in the Hotel St. Georges, he had pressed for political and social changes. "The people are dissatisfied...
They want freedom and reform, and they will get it with or against the royal family. Either we lead the reform or we all will be overwhelmed by it." But, Talal went on, "King Saud is absolutely hopeless. It is impossible to achieve anything under his rule. He not only doesn't want constitutional monarchy; he doesn't understand what it is." Talal claims that during his last hitch in the government (1960-61) Saud promised him he could proclaim a constitutional monarchy. Proclaim he did-but Saud prohibited mention of it in Saudi Arabia's press...
...Monnet assistant, compares the operation with the committees of correspondence in America's struggle for independence. Monnet says quietly: "I don't have an official position. I have influence." He likes to add a quotation from a somewhat remote source, Saudi Arabia's late King Ibn Saud, who once said, "In my youth I met God in the desert, and God gave me the secret of success: To me everything is opportunity, even an obstacle...