Word: aden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Reefs. In August of 1950, Major Hayter weighed anchor at Lymington and beat his way by easy stages eastward across the Mediterranean, past Suez and down to Aden. He was in no hurry, and he was happy to pick up some spare change by ferrying Moslems across the Red Sea. In India he spent six months working ashore and saving money. Then he sailed on, past Singapore and Surabaya...
...along what used to be called the lifeline of empire, flashes of discord flared up like warning signals. Cyprus went from bad to worse. At the Red Sea refueling base of Aden, nationalists shouted abuse at Her Majesty's visiting minister. Farther east, Ceylon's new Prime Minister had notified Britain that it must remove its forces from the base at Trincomalee. Talks on a new status for Singapore collapsed, and Chief Minister David Marshall departed, demanding: "How long can you keep Singapore with a bayonet?" Before long, Britain may have no secure base across the wide expanse...
...hardened its policy. Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, addressing a Tory rally, stated the government's position baldly: "We are an island dependent on our overseas trade and our overseas interests ... It is essential that we should retain certain positions of strength at whatever cost." He specified Cyprus, Aden and Singapore...
...days earlier Lord Lloyd, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, had flown down to Aden to lay down a similar line. Greeted by a turbulent crowd that stoned his car, Lord Lloyd was firm. "I should like you to under stand," he told the Aden Legislative Counil, "that for the foreseeable future it would not be reasonable or sensible, or indeed in the interests of the colony's inhabitants, for them to aspire to any aim beyond that of a considerable degree of self-government . . . Her Majesty's government wish to make it clear that...
...first conducted a war of terrorism against the territory's Italians, killing more Europeans than were slain in Kenya's Mau Mau revolt. But tribesmen have been won over by Italy's patience and good will. "Somalis will always be grateful to Italy," said Aden Abdullah. Last week, with its ten-year trusteeship term half over, Italy turned over all legislative power to an elected native Parliament. Abdullah's party, dedicated to modernization of the Somalis' age-old tribal life, and opposed by traditionalist tribal parties, won 43 out of 63 seats...