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Until now, the British hoped that Feisal could supply the troops to defend the territory once the tommies pull out. But Feisal, who is already supporting anti-Nasser forces in Yemen, is hardly eager for another confrontation with Nasser-whose air force last week bombed the Saudi town of Najran, near the Yemeni frontier, for the third time this year. The British may be getting the point. Last week British Foreign Secretary George Brown appeared in Parliament with a first hint that Britain might at least consider staying on in Aden for a while. It was still the government...
...Queen Elizabeth, who had never seen the ceremony herself, ordered it performed to mark the state visit of Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, the somber and bearded monarch who has emerged as leader of the moderate forces op posing the pan-Arabism of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser...
Feisal came to Britain for more than a bit of royal pomp. He fears that when the British protectorate of Aden gets its independence next year, Nasser's followers will swallow it up once British troops pull out, thus giving his enemy another stronghold on Saudi Arabia's flank. In discussions continuing through this week, he will try to persuade Prime Minister Harold Wilson to postpone Britain's troop withdrawal-perhaps indefinitely...
Reluctant Plea. Nasser disavows any intention of sending troops into Aden when the British grant that colony independence next year. But the terrorist organizations that he supports have made it all but impossible for Britain to make an orderly withdrawal from either Aden or the larger South Arabian Federation, of which it is a part. They have refused to take part in any coalition with the British-backed government. Instead, the Nasserite Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (FLOSY) is training an army of more than 5,000 men in nearby Yemen to take over when the British...
...blunt Nasser's thrust, King Hussein of Jordan went to Teheran last week for talks with the Shah of Iran. This week King Feisal, the leader of the more moderate Arab regimes, goes to London to make a plea for more arms aid. "We are obliged, however reluctantly, to defend ourselves," says Feisal, whose country is also infiltrated with pro-Nasser terrorists and has been bombed by Egyptian planes. The British are helping Feisal strengthen his army and build an air defense system. In London, he is expected to ask the British to refrain for the moment from giving...