Word: yemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rule has continued without a break for 45 years. He has combined the two ancient principalities of Hejd and Hejaz into the present kingdom of Saudi Arabia, subjected neighboring Yemen (pop. 3,500,000) to his rule but left it nominally autonomous, and imposed an astonishing degree of order upon a people to whom disorder has been the immemorial rule of life. Now, at 65, he is justly called Servant of the Almighty, strong as a lion, subtle as the Koran, straight as a scepter. He is, beyond cavil, the greatest of living Arab rulers...
...stunning Arab robes in Cairo. Most important, Saudi Arabia, keystone of any Pan-Arab federation and outstanding absentee at last autumn's Alexandria conference of Arab nations (TIME, Oct. 16), would attend the meeting in the person of Al Sheikh Yussef Yassin, personal secretary of King Ibn Saud. Yemen, the little state by the Red Sea, was not represented, but a delegate was also hopefully expected...
...philosophizing, young Stern wrote poetry, brooded on the unhappy lot of his people. The British Government's White Paper (1939), limiting Jewish immigration into Palestine, convinced Philosopher Stern that the Jews must force concessions from the British at rifle point. He recruited a gang of young Jews from Yemen and ganovim from the ghettos of Poland and Lithuania. They were pledged to "sell their lives dearly." British censorship blanketed many of their achievements. But enough stories of arson, murder and destruction seeped through to show that the Stern gang had succeeded in combining effective sabotage with an ability...
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...
Plans. Nahas Pasha reportedly had his own pet plan-a large, loose coalition embracing, under Egypt's leadership, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Syria, the Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, the Yemen...