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...peace in exchange for U.S. diplomatic recognition of Yemen's revolutionary regime. Instead, Nasser made it clear at Port Said that he plans to stay in Yemen, the better to export revolution into the British-protected states-ranging from Kuwait in the north of the Arabian peninsula to Aden in the south-as well as to Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia...
Washington moved only after squeezing promises of good behavior out of Sallal and Nasser. Prodded by U.S. Charge d'Affaires Robert Stookey. Sallal proclaimed Yemen's "firm policy to honor its international obligations"-including a 1934 treaty pledging respect for Britain's Aden Protectorate, home of a troublemaking Yemeni minority. In Cairo, Nasser's government promised to "start gradual withdrawal" of its 18,000-man expeditionary force, "provided Saudi and Jordanian forces also retire from border regions." But Nasser will leave swarms of technicians and advisers behind...
...received a license), the Sallal regime boasts that it will return enemy attacks "as far as Amman," the Jordanian capital. With Nasser's belligerent backing, Sallal proclaimed a new "Republic of the Arabian Peninsula," laying claim to about three dozen kingdoms, sheikdoms and sultanates near Aden, most of which are under British protection...
...armies of about 1,000 men each, most raised from Yemenite tribesmen in Saudi territory, invaded Yemen, but Sallal swiftly assembled his ragtag Yemenite army and, with the help of Soviet arms and Egyptian planes, drove the royalists back across the border into Saudi Arabia and Britain's Aden Protectorate. Twenty-five nations, from Russia to Indonesia, promptly recognized Sallal's regime. The U.S. and Britain, trapped between their alliances with the remaining Arab monarchies and their concern for the oil-rich regions of Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, took refuge in silence on the question...
...staunchly antitotalitarian, anti-Communist International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, with which the Aden T.U.C. is affiliated, in July supported the complaint of the Aden T.U.C. against British policy in the area, a complaint which was also supported by the British T.U.C...