208-PU-173_2:  Color and Pomp at Monarch’s Meeting With FDR.   King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia (on President’s left), was received by the President aboard USS Quincy (CA 71) amid pomp and colorful ceremonies.  It was the first time in his life that King Saud had left his country’s soil. On the deck of a rich oriental rug added the brilliant costumes made the scene colorful.  Meeting took place at Great Bitter Lake, near Cairo, Egypt, after the monarch had travelled more than 800 miles.  King Saud and President Roosevelt are shown above seated on the deck of the President’s ship that brought him from the “Big Three” conference at Yalta, Crimea, February 1945.   U.S. Army Signal Corps Photograph.  Office of War Information Collection.   (2016/08/30).
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