King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia called last night on Palestinian Arabs to go to war against Israel and promised weapons and money to them for that purpose, it was reported here today from Dhahran.
Asserting that “Palestine cannot be liberated except by the blood of Palestinians,” he urged the Arabs to follow the example of the Algerian Moslems and said he would back them as he backed the Algerians “morally and materially.”
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