The President of the U.S. got his modern history wrong. The King of Saudi Arabia flunked ancient history, ethnology and arithmetic. The Prime Minister of Great Britain was annoyed. Arabs and Zionists were furious.
The Palestine issue was on the boil again.
Pledge to a King. President Truman had said that there was no record at the White House of a Roosevelt pledge on Palestine to King Ibn Saud. Truman was right only in the technical sense that the file was next door at the State Department.
The British had been raging since Truman...
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