Word: yemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reward for his success in fomenting an Arabian revolt against Turkey during the War. Last week, after eight years of self-imposed nonentity as a British private, T. E. Lawrence returned to Arabia as a British plenipotentiary and arrived at San'a, the Capital of the Imamate of Yemen...
Mightily of a twitter were the twelve warlike princes of Yemen and their potent father, the Imam Yahya ben Muhammad ben Hamid al Din. Over coffee brewed from the peerless beans of Menakha, and with the eight gates of the Imam's capital barred for the night, a conference took place in deadly secrecy between Plenipotentiary and Potentate...
...special symbol was assigned to "the indispensable word wangle" in the diplomatic code of the British Foreign Office, by imperative request of Colonel T. E. (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence (See Yemen...
...Mussolini a ten-year treaty of arbitration and amity. Significantly, this is the first treaty of this kind to be signed between Italy and an American nation,† though Signor Mussolini has woven a network of eleven sinister pacts linking Italy with England, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Spain, Yemen, Rumania and Albania...
...Britain, concluded a treaty of commerce, amity and navigation with Jugoslavia, and a pact with Great Britain concerning common interests in Abyssinia, a treaty of commerce with Siam, an arbitration pact with Spain and one with Rumania, a treaty of commerce with Guatemala, a treaty of friendship with the Yemen (Arabia...