Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anchor. From her graceful cutaway stern the royal Egyptian standard flapped idly in a Red Sea breeze. The rocky hills echoed with right royal salvos fired in salutation between ship and shore. Smart young King Farouk of Egypt had come to call on wise old King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia...
Prudence Before Presence. But not all the Arab states had yet agreed to the League. Saudi Arabia and Yemen had not come in. Saudi Arabia's far-sighted Ibn Saud and Yemen's prudent Iman Yahya had sent no delegates to Alexandria, only "observers"-two elderly sheiks taking a seaside cure. They had not signed...
Have you also forgotten that had it not been for the facilities that Egypt offered the Allies, the victories in North Africa would lave been impossible. We cannot underrate the contribution of Trans-Jordan, and the friendly attitude of Saudi Arabia. The Arabs in Palestine fought against Rommel and kept their internal political struggle against the Zionists at a standstill for the duration, in order to keep the front of the Allies strong and united...
Plans. Nahas Pasha reportedly had his own pet plan-a large, loose coalition embracing, under Egypt's leadership, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Syria, the Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, the Yemen...
Noel Busch was the first non-Moslem journalist in a century to visit Riad, Saudi Arabia's capital, and Ibn Saud was a journalist's dream assignment: one of the most colorful and least-written-about of the world's rulers. But in his second book, What Manner of Man?, Author Busch set himself the task of discussing the world's most-written-about head of state. He approached the subject of Franklin D. Roosevelt with precisely the same mixture of curiosity, detachment and aplomb that he took to Riad. The result is, with the possible...