BOMBER BASE LEASE
AMERICAN NEGOTIATIONS KING IBN SAUD SEEKS FIRM ASSURANCE NZPA—Copyright Rec. 11 p.m. WASHINGTON, Apl. 16. The United Press says the American policy in China is having repercussions in Saudi Arabia, where the United States is trying to get longterm rights to strategic bomber bases The Arab feeling that the United States betrayed China to the Communists was reported to-day to have “ snarled up ” negotiations with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia for a new American lease of the bomber base at Dhahi’an.
The three-year lease of the base expired on March 15, but United States planes were continuing to use it under
a temporary agreement. Diplomatic sources said to-day that before renewing the lease on a long-term basis King Ibn Saud wants a firm assurance that the United States would stand by him in the event of any Russian move against the Arab world. Some Amei'ican officials said King Ibn Saud’s fears were in the process of being allayed and that a new agreement on Dhahran would soon be completed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27058, 18 April 1949, Page 5
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