Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political difficulties in absorbing Syria (TIME, June 30) may also have persuaded him that out-and-out annexation of other Arab countries is a poor idea. Provided that he can bring the rest of the Arab world under his sway-as he has already done in Iraq and Saudi Arabia-the Egyptian dictator might be content with a loose federation of Arab states rather than one imperial Egyptianrun nation. These were the reassuring possibilities...
...less easy to dismiss the venom spewed forth next day by Saudi Arabia's Ahmed Shukairy. Speaking for the Arab princes who live on the royalties from U.S. oil companies, Shukairy exhorted the Western powers to get out of the Middle East and stay...
...Shukairy. "There must be a rushing consent to Arab aspirations before they are achieved without consent. This psychoneurotic complex of hating President Nasser should be extracted from Western thinking." The ferocity of his language might have been intended to convey verbal loyalty to Nasser and Arab nationalism while concealing Saudi Arabia's unwillingness to pool its $300 million-a-year income with its Arab brothers. As he put it, "Oil, our oil, is not a political commodity of international concern...
...ordered a cut in armaments. Unhappy Syrian officers reportedly flung their caps on the table, the traditional gesture of threatening to resign from the army if they do not have their way. More agreeable to Nasser was his three-day meeting with Crown Prince Feisal, Premier of oil-rich Saudi Arabia, who announced that "clouds between the two countries have now been cleared...
Besides, Nasser offers another form of membership in his club, not so binding as Syria's merger with Egypt in the United Arab Republic, which has not worked well, as even Nasser admits. Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and eventually Jordan might be persuaded to join a looser association called the United Arab States, which now links the U.A.R. with the feudal Imam of Yemen, a ruler whose primitivism makes the sheiks of Saudi Arabia appear enlightened democrats by comparison.* By joining the U.A.S., other Arab rulers might hope to keep some internal autonomy and some hold on their fabulous...