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...Without Aramco, Saudi Arabia would revert to a black-tent kingdom of camels, date palms and holy places. But no U.S. adviser has his office in the palace compound (as the British ambassador did in Jordan), no company agent issues authoritative suggestions to Saud's government officials (as Anglo-Iranian did in Iran). The result has been that nowhere else in the world, where such a single foreign interest so dominates a nation's economy, is there less rancor between government and company, between host and paying guest...
Moderate Voice. When the Anglo-French attack on Suez came, Saud, in the opinion of U.S. observers, did what he had to do-and no more. He closed down the pipeline to Bahrein (a British protectorate), banned sale of Saudi oil to British or French buyers, broke relations with Britain and France, allowed Nasser to use Saudi airfields to fly his Russian jets and bombers to safety, and offered Saudi troops (Nasser declined them as unneeded). In return, he had one urgent favor to ask of Nasser: that he ask the Syrians not to blow up Tapline, the pipeline that...
...freezes $50 million in Egyptian funds." Last week, as Nasser kept asking Washington to "clarify the vague parts" of a plan that his controlled press was denouncing as "more sinister than anything British imperialism could possibly conceive," the U.S. made plain that it had not opposed the Anglo-French invasion of Suez just to save Nasser's bacon, and hinted that it was not out merely to restore the status quo ante (see below). The Eisenhower Administration now expects to assist only those countries -say Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon and Jordan to start with-which share its determination...
...MACMILLAN will gladly go to the U.S.-if he is asked. His friendship with Ike, which goes back to their work together in North Africa during World War II, is very dear to Macmillan, and, at the moment, Anglo-American relationships are uppermost in his mind...
...whom had been arrested in one big countrywide swoop early last month (TIME, Dec. 17), included 23 whites, 105 Negroes, 21 Asians and seven mixed-blood "coloreds." They were clergymen, doctors, lawyers, educators and trade unionists, and their real offense was not treason as it is understood in Anglo-Saxon law but bitter opposition to the apartheid racist policies of Premier Johannes Strydom. Under South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act. anyone who aims at "the encouragement of feelings of hostility between European and non-European" can be declared a Communist-and therefore, presumptively, a traitor...