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Clark's Arab driver explained to the natives that the jeep was the offspring of the truck that followed with Clark's luggage. Yemenites, who understand heredity, understood that; they have been "electing" members of one family as their rulers since 897 A.D. The latest, Imam Yahya bin Mohamed bin Hamid el Din (76), had asked Clark to come up from Aden, where he is U.S. consul, to arrange for regular diplomatic relations between the two nations...
Into the sun-hammered compound of Aden's Government House one day this spring ambled two mean, dusty camels, bearing on their backs 1,200 pounds of coffee for Governor Sir John Hathorn Hall. The coffee was a gift from the Imam of the Red Sea state of Yemen. Connoisseurs call the Mocha coffee of Yemen the finest in the world, but Sir John had an even better reason to be grateful for the gift...
...Arabia a present of coffee is a pledge of friendship stronger than any written pact, and for years Britain has courted the friendship of fanatically religious, 65-year-the old Yahya ibn Hamid-ed-Din, Imam of Yemen. A notably independent, notably stingy monarch, he for years nursed a boundary grudge against the British Government, listened attentively to the blandishments of Italy's would-be imperialists. But his camel loads of coffee meant that at last he was on Britain's side...
...residency cluttered with coffee sacks, Sir John decided that the practical thing to do was to send the coffee to England for war relief. This decision wrinkled the brows of the Foreign Office. In the mysterious East, Kings' gifts are not for commoners. Should the Imam ever hear that his royal gift had been given to Tom, Dick & Harry, he might well feel insulted...
Last week the young King, attended 500 of his army officers, not only attend the service in Cairo's Quoson Mosque but donned the robes of an imam, the prayer leader, and read the prayers to the congregation. When he finished, the congregation and his officers broke into a thunderous cheer: "The Caliph of all Islam...