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...post-revolution clergy, are gripped by his grand aim to swamp evil "with a flood of good." Few of them can match the bishop's activity. A year ago, he was in Mexico contacting Spanish refugees. Later, in Portugal, he conferred with the pretender to the Spanish throne. Don Juan, and the exiled onetime leader of Spain's Catholic party, Gil Robles. Last month he was off to Rome, where the Pope received him twice. This week he was back in Madrid, busy as ever, holding conferences, discussing labor problems and teaching at his school. Church opinion holds...
Belgrave did not do this alone. Bahrein's little Sheik, Sir Sulman bin Hamad al Khalifah, who came to the throne in 1942, is a good ruler. He looks like Jordan's late King Abdullah, has the same dignified mien and dancing eyes. Sulman's memory is phenomenal: he remembers which oil driller's wife is having a baby. He takes all the newspapers, listens regularly to the Arabic radio broadcasts. When the Moscow radio calls Belgrave a "dictator" Sulman chuckles, twits his $9, 600-a-year adviser. From time to time, in his Rolls-Royce...
...across the Arabian sand and jebel. Finance Minister Abdullah Al-Soliman, trusted confidant of the King and the most powerful man in the country outside the royal family, would rather see 46-year-old Foreign Minister Feisal, Ibn Saud's second son, succeed to the throne. So would the British...
...death of her father brought to the throne a 25-year-old queen...
...Siring of an heir to the throne...