Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arab League's members, the Government of British-sponsored Iraq, filed a "friendly protest" in Washington, objecting that Palestine already had enough "strangers." The Arabs had some reason to be baffled. They had understood that President Roosevelt, at his post-Yalta meeting with Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, had promised not to upset or seriously disturb the Arab position. Now the White House took the ground that since no written record of any such promise existed, the promise did not exist...
Frances P. Bolton, Ohio Congresswoman now exploring the Middle East, told Bagdad reporters that King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia had broken precedent by permitting her, a mere woman, to enter his private council chamber in Riyadh. Said the King: "No tradition should be allowed to stand in the way of good understanding...
...Arabian-American Oil Co. (owned fifty-fifty by Standard Oil Co. of California and Texas Co.) paid a lot of the bills. Washington heard that Arabian-American's advances to the royal Saudi Arabian party ran well into six figures...
Prince Mohamed Ibn-Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia performs his princely functions in a princely manner. With his brothers, he attended the San Francisco Conference in long white robes and created an impression of stateliness and dignity, called on the U.S. State Department, inspected U.S. factories and Niagara Falls, dined with countless Arab-American groups, bought new automobiles, radios, phonographs and typewriters, lived splendidly in an eighth-floor suite at the Waldorf-Astoria...
...minute of it, and especially the times when we could slip away from the Prince's bodyguard. But as for romance, that's just plain silly. He was attracted to me because I can speak Arabic. . . ." The Prince, mindful of his one wife and six children in Saudi Arabia, said that he did not remember Mary Mohammed. He then departed for England and home...