Word: yahya
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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...
...Yahya, the Imam of Yemen is a wily Arab potentate whose triangular territory near the southern end of the Red Sea includes the famed coffee city of Mocha. The Ethiopian war and the growing power of Italy on the Red Sea have made Yahya the Imam an important character. Playing his nuisance value for all it was worth, he played British against Italian agents, finally threw in his luck with Italy last year. But Yahya the Imam has many sons, with all of whom he is at outs. British agents had swarthy spectacled Prince Hussein in London in no time...
Married. Abdul Aziz Ibn Abdulrahman Ibn Faisal Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia; and the daughter of Sheik Nawal el-Shaalan of Damascus; by proxy, in Damascus, where 40 sheiks represented the absent bridegroom. Conqueror of Yahya the Imam of Yemen last year (TIME, May 14, 1934), creator and builder of modern Arabia, towering, bespectacled Ibn Saud has married and divorced more than 100 times, has never exceeded the limit of four wives at one time allowed him by sacred custom...