What is the most interesting fact that you can think of about this man?
There is a single act that he committed that marked the end of the Nineteenth Century.
But not until way into the Twentieth.
What was that act? Anybody?
I remember "the act" and his killing by a crazy relative... forget which one, like it were yesterday.
Take a guess. He did something that was the "last government on earth to act" kind of thingy. What was it?
<edit> This was the "Saudi" king. Not the Iraqi king. Just remembered that there was another. Different time and story. Sorry.>
It isn't politically correct. So I will have to tell you.
He was the last leader of a "civilized" nation to ban Slavery.
True.
Historians have for some reason chosen to "clean up" history for us here. We are too delicate to handle the truth. And all institutions must fall to the god of Marx. Stalin ordered the suppression of "slavery" in education as regards the Saud's . Know why? Guess. It is as simple as "spheres of influence" and communism. Another post by darvlay prompted this thread when he asked what else we will have to suppress or hide.
This is an example of what the marxist doctrine of "control the institutions" did. Slavery was practiced way into the twentieth century. And sanctioned by Stalin. For oil.
Eisenhourer told the family of Saud that we would buy nothing nor help them develop their oil until they gave up slavery. At about the same time Eisenhour sent troops to Arkansas.