Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three armies of Wahabi Arabs, sent forth by Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, advanced last week through the mountain passes of Yemen Arabia, converging on Sana, the walled white mountain capital of Yemen One moved eastward, from the Red Sea port of Hodeida that Ibn Saud's men captured last fortnight. One moved westward from the great central desert toward Sana. The third drove down from the border bandit land of Nejram on Sada key city to Sana. They came in armored cars, in camel corps and on horseback. And behind them able Ibn Saud solidified their gains...
...this had nothing to do with Cab Calloway. It meant that the 33-year-old movement, to build a great Arab nation under a single ruler, had reached a crisis. Huge, gaunt Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, was about to capture Yemen, last important independent territory on the Peninsula. The Imam of Yemen was reported dead and Ibn Saud's men already in the streets of the seaport of Hodeida. Belching clouds of black smoke, British and Italian cruisers and destroyers raced to Yemen "to protect nationals...
...wishes of His Majesty's Government in regard to his foreign policy.") In 1932 Ibn Saud's conquests were sufficiently consolidated and stable to allow him to change the name of his realm from Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd and its Dependencies to The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He continued to rule this new domain (nearly four times the size of Texas) from Riyadh, his birthplace 54 years ago and his old capital since 1901. But on the Red Sea there still remained Yemen...
...complaints of Communist propaganda. But Soviet Russia-one-sixth of the world-is no pariah. Her government has now been recognized by Afghanistan, Austria, China, Danzig, Denmark. Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain (none of the British dominions has extended recognition), Greece, Iceland, Irak, Italy, Japan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Norway. Persia, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the U. S. and Uruguay...