Word: aden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the British retreated from Suez, it looked as if they could not hold out much longer at Aden, their hot and ugly colonial outpost at the other end of the Red Sea. In his medieval stronghold to the north, the Imam of Yemen was leagued with Arab nationalism's Hero Nasser in the United Arab States and spreading lavish gifts of money and rifles to persuade the Arabs of the Aden hinterland to join in driving the British "invaders" right off the peninsula...
Last year, to make a better buffer around Aden, the British set up a new federation of the Arab states of Aden's Western Protectorate. But only half a dozen sheiks and emirs and sultans could be prodded or cajoled into joining. The former Sultan of Lahej, most considerable of the petty potentates, turned up in Cairo to make anti-British propaganda. Half his army of 300 men, dragging along their only field piece, had crossed over to Yemen. The rest of the chieftains obviously thought the British were a poor bet for the future...