Word: yemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark, crenelated St. James's Palace slipped separate, silent groups of Saudi Arabs in crisp brown silk robes and white headdresses, Yemen Arabs in turbans and black-and-green cloaks, Egyptians in scarlet fezzes, Jews in business suits, British diplomats in morning coats and silk toppers. On the eve of the "Conference" they split into three camps (Jews, "Defense" Arabs, "Mufti" Arabs), shut themselves into separate chambers and let the British diplomats shuttle...
Jealousy among the various Arab delegates-from Palestine, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Trans-Jordan, Yemen-broke out next. It was learned that Palestinian Defense Leader Ragheb Bey Nashashibi had "caught cold"-not from dank British weather but from heat put on him by representatives of surrounding States...
Since the Moslem hierarchy of Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Transjordan, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Yemen, India and Egypt must first decide on the choice of a Caliph, to cheers were premature but it was significant that among those cheering were Farouk's guests, the Emir of Yemen, Self-al-Islam Hussein, and Emir Feisal, the son of Saudi Arabia's King, Ibn Saud...
...confused with the Yemenites, Arab inhabitants of Yemen, who like all Arabs are at present the Jews' bitter enemies...
...half-legendary hero-philosopher of the desert revolt retired to write, refused all honors and titles offered by "perfidious Albion," died in a motorcycle accident three years ago. Instead of one Arab nation, so far there have emerged from the old Ottoman confines five major states: Saudi Arabia, the Yemen, Trans-Jordan, Palestine, Iraq. Lebanon and Syria are soon to come to independent statehood. Of these, only Saudi Arabia, ruled by strong-willed King Ibn Saud, can really call its soul...