[Civsoc-mw] Meanwhile in Riyadh

[Tony Tontholani]

In February 1945 Franklin Roosevelt, on his way home from the Yalta Conference—and just two months before his death—made a detour to Egypt to meet Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman al Saud, the founder of the modern Saudi state. Historians recall that the Saudi monarch brought aboard the USS Quincy live sheep for roasting on deck and his astrologer, while the American president introduced the seventy-year-old king to ice cream and movies. Yet their concerns were serious: the United States sought guaranteed access to the oil that had been discovered in the kingdom seven years earlier; Ibn Saud, as he was known, wanted protection from a challenge to his family’s rule that would be backed—in his imagination—by Britain.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/06/27/mohammad-bin-salman-reckless-riyadh/?fbclid=IwAR1RiXWAa0-qSTOQgCT1OthGgXdRxJ4sOK7ZClwklri3Um5GPOwEnWOej8A




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