Word: aden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...danger in all this is growing languor and ultimate drowsiness. That is what befell Composer Aden's tropical House of Flowers, with its far more promising book. But though the book of Jamaica, in short, has an idiot simplicity and an almost insolent lack of purpose, it sort of timidly shuffles about between tunes, seldom even daring to let go with gags. Moreover, the book has Lena Horne on every page, and Harold Arlen to turn the page while she is singing one or another of his songs. She is beautiful, and with what elegant sexuality she twists about...
...Kuala Lumpur, Britain welcomed the tenth member of a Commonwealth which now includes five nations dominated by people of European stock, four by Asians (Malaya, India, Pakistan, Ceylon) and one by Africans (Ghana). Of all the once vast British possessions east of Suez, only Hong Kong, North Borneo, Aden and a few scattered islands still remain...
...directed the unloading of T-34 tanks, piston-engine trainer planes, antiaircraft guns, military vehicles and small arms. The British, already in trouble fighting the Imam of Oman at the eastern end of the Arabian peninsula, now face the possibility of difficulty from the Imam of Yemen on their Aden borders. In supplying arms to the Imam of Yemen, the Russians counted on their use for outside mischiefmaking: as the leading head-chopper among Arab potentates, the Imam has little domestic opposition. The Imam of Yemen is hardly abreast of the 4th century, but the Communists can nonetheless be expected...
...twelve rocket-and-bomb missions, the Sultan's red banner was seen flying in place of the Imam's white flag over the fort at Izki, and old hands at the R.A.F. base at Sharja were saying cheerfully that that was how it always worked in Aden and in the North-West Frontier province...
Something of Value. Aden, on the tip of the Arabian peninsula, was one possibility, but Sandys found the climate unbearable (120° in the shade during his visit), and facilities generally limited. Kenya, on the other hand, offered attractive possibilities. The climate in the highlands is salubrious, and there is plenty of room and rugged country for troop training as well as fairly good communications and storage facilities. Mombasa, an Indian Ocean seaport the royal navy wants to develop now that it is losing Trincomalee in Ceylon, has direct communications with the Persian Gulf, without permission of Nasser. Finally...