Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victims of their colonial expansion. . . . Italian propaganda in Palestine probably exists to some extent but I see no reason why we should exchange British rule for Italian. On the contrary, the Italian occupation of Ethiopia is a threat against the two independent states on the Arabian peninsula: Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Mussolini has no chance of gaining followers among the Arabians; he has instead contributed to the speedy growth of the Pan-Arab movement...
...island of Bahrein in the Persian Gulf it does have a great potential supply of crude (see p. 21). Development was started in 1931 and a big refinery is under construction. Yet last year California Standard was able to sell only 1,300,000 bbl. of Bahrein oil. In Saudi Arabia and the Netherland Indies the company has other concessions which may develop into rich producers...
...speech elsewhere. His swank Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Cranborne, explained: "My presence is possible only because I can meet the Emperor in a private, non-political capacity." In their official capacities came the Argentine, Turkish, Brazilian and Chinese Ambassadors and the Ministers of Cuba, Finland, Iraq, Nepal, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Uruguay, and Paraguay's charge d'affaires. Also the Deans of Westminster and St. Paul's, Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George and Salvation Army General Evangeline Booth...
Thereafter Egypt's King Fuad refused to recognize the new Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, stopped the grain and money gifts to Mecca. The valuable Egyptian pilgrim traffic to Mecca fell off sharply. Last month, just before King Fuad died, King Ibn Saud maneuvered Egypt's then Premier Aly Maher Pasha into new negotiations between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. From his deathbed Fuad, also anxious to patch the quarrel since he still hoped to be named Caliph of all Islam,* fostered the secret negotiations...
Last week, with Fuad's body new in its grave, Egypt agreed to recognize the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Ibn Saud guaranteed the safety of the annual Egyptian pilgrimage to Mecca. Economically, each country will enjoy a "most-favored-nation" status with the other...