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Britain's Aden Colony consists of 75 sq. mi. of bleak volcanic rock at the southwestern tip of the Arabian peninsula. Though hot as hell's hinges, Aden is a prosperous city of some 300,000; its port, one of the world's busiest, has virtually the only good harbor on the 3,400-mile sea haul from Suez to India. Aden is also headquarters for the 40,000 troops of Britain's Middle East Command who stand guard over the Persian Gulf. In the setting sun of empire, Britain has been shoved out of bases...
Jumble of Sheiks. The British rule Aden, the majority of whose people are immigrants from neighboring Yemen, through a tame Legislative Council. During the 123 years they have held Aden, the British have gradually extended their influence inland by establishing a protectorate over a jumble of sheiks, emirs and sultans ruling such unlikely states as Lahej, Qishn, Upper Aulaqi and Lower Yafa. Submission was all that Britain required: not until recently did the British build schools or roads throughout the 112,000 sq. mi. of the protectorate...
...aide last week, trying for a head count. "How many magazines did we pick up out in Australia? Ten or twelve? Oh, fine, 13. How many we got in Africa? Thirty in Africa. We got three new TV stations in Kenya, Uganda and Trinidad. I got one started in Aden, and I just got a license for a station blanketing Gibraltar and Tangier. Anyway. I'm expanding all I can as fast...
...Kuwait. He was amazed when alarm bells went off all over the Middle East. At Sheik Abdullah as Salim as Sabah's cry for help, Britain in a matter of hours poured 3,000 crack troops, with their tanks and troop carriers, into Kuwait from bases in Kenya, Aden and Bahrein. A British aircraft carrier and a fleet of warships appeared offshore; another flotilla steamed toward the area from the Mediterranean. After the fiasco at Suez, the British were delighted at the chance to demonstrate that they could still defend the vital areas of the Middle East that...
Claiming somebody else's land is a favorite hobby of the princes and powers around the Persian Gulf, and they do it on the simple theory that their nomadic ancestors once roamed the ground in question. Backward Yemen claims all of the Aden Protectorate, whose border is disputed in turn by Saudi Arabia, which has claims on Muscat and Oman as well. Iran claims Bahrein, and Iraq's rulers have always coveted the desert sheikdom of Kuwait, currently the richest country per acre and per capita in the Middle East. But nobody ever took the claim seriously until...