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...Wolves. Nasser claims that the place of the Arab potentates has been filled by the British, long uneasy about Nasser's ambitions in oil-rich Arabia. Indeed, Anthony Boyle, who until last October was aide-de-camp to the British High Commissioner in Aden, recently turned up as an unofficial military adviser in the royalist mountains. Asked in Parliament who authorized Boyle's involvement in Yemen, Britain's Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home insisted that "both the present High Commissioner and his predecessor have assured my right honorable friend that they were not aware the person...
...recalling Chinese Premier Chou En-lai's Cai ro visit only six months ago, Khrushchev tried hard to sound every bit as revolutionary as Peking. He attacked Israel as "an agent of imperialism," supported the Arab policy on Jordan water, tore into the British and their position at Aden...
Foul. For months, Aden has been under sporadic attack by some 500 to 1,000 dissident border tribesmen known as the Red Wolves of Radfan. Primed with arms and ammunition from Egyptian caches in Yemen, they have been harassing the key trade route between Dhala and Aden. Half the federation's 4,000-man, British-officered army was assigned to end the "state of revolt" last January. By March, frustrated by rebel strikes from Yemen as well, the British bombed the Yemeni fortress of Harib after warning civilians to clear out, earning a sharp rebuke from the U.N. Security...
Last week it was Britain's turn to cry foul. At a press conference in Aden, Major General J. H. Cubbon, commander of Britain's Middle East land forces, said he had "reliable information" that two British soldiers had been killed in an ambush and decapitated. Their heads, he said, were then paraded around the Yemeni town of Taiz on stakes. The report was later discounted by U.S. diplomats in Taiz. Nonetheless, as the Laborite Daily Herald noted, the two soldiers "were killed-and they were killed in a war which drags on with no end in sight...
...House of Commons, Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home impatiently rejected Opposition charges that the Aden conflict was the government's fault: "The situation in the Middle East does not depend on British good will alone," he said. "There must be some reciprocity. We have seen precious little of this up to now, I must say." Assuming that none would be forthcoming, Britain beefed up its forces in Aden with strategic reserves from Kenya, put the Lancashire Fusiliers on 24-hour alert in England. If still more muscle is needed, warned Sir Alec, "troops will be moved from Germany...