1. Memorandum of conversation between the King of Saudi Arabia and President Roosevelt, February 14, 1945, FRUS, 1–4; “Cairo Conversations,” February 17, 1945, FO 141/1047; Annex to the “Cairo Conversations” between Churchill and Ibn Saud, February 17, 1945, FO 141/1047; William A. Eddy, FDR Meets Ibn Saud (New York: American Friends of the Middle East, 1954), 29.
2. Donald Cameron Watt, “The Foreign Policy of Ibn Saud, 1936–1939,” Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society 50 (April 1963): 152–160, reveals the King’s deliberate strategy of facilitating the needs and interests of the Americans.
3. See also William A. Eddy, FDR Meets Ibn Saud (New York: American Friends of the Middle East, 1954);
4. and Thomas W. Lippman, Arabian Knight: Colonel Bill Eddy USMC and the Rise of American Power in the Middle East (Vista, CA: Selwa Press, 2008).
5. Barry Rubin, “Anglo-American Relations in Saudi Arabia, 1941–1945,” Journal of Contemporary History 14 (April 1979): 253–268, argues that American policy toward Saudi Arabia grew out of concerns about British interest in Saudi Arabian oil, and that the Saudis shrewdly exploited American interests in the Kingdom at the expense of the British.