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With the Big Powers thus stalemated, the U.N.'s little nations gave new voice to old complaints. In the Assembly's Trusteeship Committee, Yemen demanded an end to Britain's protectorate over Aden in southern Arabia. Greece called for self-determination for British-held Cyprus (in the hope that it would go Greek). Guatemala wanted Britain to give up British Honduras to Guatemala. Egypt kept up her demand for British withdrawal from the Suez Canal and the Sudan. All the Arab states demanded an end to French rule of Morocco, even though the General Assembly...
...There could be no solution as in 1947, when the U.S. simply took over Britain's responsibilities in Greece and Turkey. In the Middle East, Britain's responsibility extends to oilfields and air bases in Iraq, guardianship of Suez and the Sudan, the tutorship of Jordan, to Aden and its naval base, troops in Eritrea, air bases at Derna and Tobruk in Libya, heavy naval responsibility in the eastern Mediterranean. Even if it were feasible (which it is not), the U.S. could not don the discredited garments of colonialism which Britain and France have worn for decades...
Landlocked Ethiopia once had a seacoast. It fringed the strategic waters where the Red Sea runs into the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. In the 19th Century the British, the French and finally the Italians each grabbed themselves a wedge of Ethiopia's shore. In their portion called Eritrea (pop. 1,000,000; area 50,000 sq. mi.), the Italians of Benito Mussolini's Fascist era rebuilt the old city of Asmara. From Eritrea the Italians launched their conquest of Emperor Haile Selassie's domain. It took World War II to drive the Italians...
...four years Astronomer Aden B. Meinel of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory had worked on the problem. He devised a powerful spectrograph, built around a special Schmidt camera, which gathers light from a large area of the sky. Last month, when the sun was nicely spotted in the right places, he got his apparatus ready and pointed it in the direction from which he expected the hydrogen particles to come. Nicely on schedule, the night sky lit up with an "extreme aurora...
...customs garrison replied in kind, and for two months the fusillade continued back & forth across the frontier. Then the Yemeni built a small fort to improve their position. After a fruitless exchange of diplomatic protests, Aden's British government dropped a few smoke-bombs near the fort. The Yemeni sat tight. A fortnight later the British dropped real bombs, and Yemen's new fort was flattened. But no one was hurt, because the British had considerately informed the Yemeni of their plans well ahead of time and the fort's garrison of 20-odd stalwarts had prudently...