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On 14 February 1945, King Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia stepped aboard the USS Quincy, anchored in the Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal, to meet the dying American president, Franklin D Roosevelt. Roosevelt was returning from Yalta where, with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill, he had decided the fate of the post-war world. Roosevelt and Ibn Saud had a convivial discussion for several hours before going their separate ways.
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