Word: yahya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Prudence Before Presence. But not all the Arab states had yet agreed to the League. Saudi Arabia and Yemen had not come in. Saudi Arabia's far-sighted Ibn Saud and Yemen's prudent Iman Yahya had sent no delegates to Alexandria, only "observers"-two elderly sheiks taking a seaside cure. They had not signed...
...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...