Arabian JubileeDay, 1953 - 280 páginas |
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Abdul-'Aziz Abdul-Rahman Abdullah activities actual administration Ahmad already Amir Arab Arabia arrived authorities born British British Government brother certainly concerned course court daughter died discuss effective Empty Quarter event fact Fahd Faisal force foreign four frontier future Government Governor hand Hijaz Husain Ibn Rashid Ibn Sa'ud important interests Iraq issue Jidda keep king king's Kuwait land later Madina March matter Meanwhile Mecca meet military Minister months Muhammad Najd negotiations never occasion officials operations palace Palestine party perhaps period Persian pilgrimage political position possible Powers prayers present province reason received recent regarded remained representative respect result Riyadh round royal Sa'd seemed sent side situation sons soon territory took town treaty tribe Turki Turkish Turks Wahhabi whole
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Página 2 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Página 267 - Sulaiman flourished during the end of the seventeenth and the early part of the eighteenth centuries, being thus an elder contemporary of Shaikh Muhammad ibn 'Abdul- Wahhab before the beginning of the latter's ministry.
Página 208 - Jewish National Home', unless we are prepared to let Jews, if they wish, enter this tiny land in such numbers as to become a majority.
Página 43 - Bin Sa'ud undertakes, as his father did before him, to refrain from all aggression on, or interference with the territories of Kuwait, Bahrain, and of the Shaikhs of Qatar and the Oman Coast, who are under the protection of the British Government, and who have treaty relations with the said Government; and the limits of their territories shall be hereafter determined.
Página 208 - Let the Arabs be encouraged to move out, as the Jews move in. Let them be compensated handsomely for their land and let their settlement elsewhere be carefully organised and generously financed.
Página 174 - Philby," he exclaimed, almost beseechingly, "if anyone would offer me a million pounds, I would give him all the concessions he wanted.
Página 205 - I want you to know that I have a plan, which of course can only be carried into effect when the war is over. I would like to see Ibn Saud made lord of the Middle East — the boss of the bosses — provided he settles with you. It will be up to you to get the best possible conditions. Of course we shall help you. Keep this confidential, but you might talk it over with Roosevelt when you get to America. There's nothing he and I cannot do if we set our minds on it.
Página 229 - It only needed a little restraint and judicious administration to place the country beyond the reach of want forever, and to raise it to a high level of permanent prosperity.
Página 216 - Arabs' anti-American agitation because of United States' support of the Jews in the Palestine question. "The only really effective action which the Saudi Arabian Government could have taken namely the cancellation or suspension of the American oil concession as a policy against American championship of the Jewish cause was never considered seriously, or considered only to be rejected out of hand as prejudicial to the economic interests of the country, in spite of a spate of propaganda sponsored by...
Página 6 - Abdul-' Aziz developed a boyish admiration for British imperialism, which has accompanied him through life, modified only by the proviso that it should not impinge on his own sphere of activity. And it may well be that his brain began during these years to contemplate the possibility of building up an empire for himself out of the shattered fragments of his ancestors' dominions, now loosely held together by Muhammad ibn Rashid until his death in 1897.