Word: aden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the sun-hammered compound of Aden's Government House one day this spring ambled two mean, dusty camels, bearing on their backs 1,200 pounds of coffee for Governor Sir John Hathorn Hall. The coffee was a gift from the Imam of the Red Sea state of Yemen. Connoisseurs call the Mocha coffee of Yemen the finest in the world, but Sir John had an even better reason to be grateful for the gift...
Besides being a hurrier, Peter Portal is studious, thorough, meticulous. As a boy he became interested in falconry; by 16 he was writing learned articles on the ancient sport. At 41, while commander of the post at Aden, he took up sailing; and read every book he could get until he had mastered every salty trick of luff and leech. Also at Aden, he became interested in photography; and cared so much for detail that he went into micro-pictures, snapping miniature plants and shells...
...strategic ports on the Gulf of Aden...
...British Empire, the Soviet Union and the United States of America." The plan then proceeded to demand naval parity for the Tokyo-Berlin-Rome Axis against the U.S. and Great Britain. Further to reduce the naval power of the U.S. and Britain, the plan demanded the demilitarization of Malta, Aden, Singapore, Hong Kong; complete withdrawal of the British Navy from the Mediterranean; the withdrawal of the U.S. to Hawaii-"and even that stronghold reduced in importance...
...plant as its editorial offices moved from jungle to jungle. While this strange propaganda rallied more & more blacks to the cause, Haile Selassie and his forces took Danghila, south of Lake Tana and only 200 miles from Addis Ababa. Djibouti, the capital's port on the Gulf of Aden, was reported crowded with Italian refugees, and British military spokesmen began to predict a hasty Italian withdrawal to Addis Ababa for a strong last stand...