Abdullah Al-Sulayman, Saudi Arabian Finance Minister, conferred today with Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson on a $10,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan which has been under discussion for many months.
Sulayman was accompanied by Asad Al-Faqih, Saudi Arabian Minister to Washington, and Loy Henderson, chief of the Near Eastern Division of the State Department. The Export-Import Bank announced that it had approved the $10,000,000 loan on June 26.
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