Aden and the Gulf: the reflections of a political officer. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Day, Stephen
• Is Part Of: Middle Eastern studies. Volume 53:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 136
• Page End: 151
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: Middle East -- Periodicals; Moyen-Orient -- Périodiques; 956.005
• DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2016.1198329
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0026-3206

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The author vividly records his impressions of life in the Western Aden Protectorate in the 1960s during the years leading up to the independence of the territory in 1967. As a political officer advising various Arab tribal leaders he describes how his responsibilities could range far wider than the provisions of the Advisory Treaties, and he offers personal conclusions about the collapse of British and Arab authority resulting, in his view, from a misguided attempt to turn tribal sheikhs into a coalition of Indian rulers, creating the shaky structure of a Federal government that collapsed in the face of rag-tag opposition from nationalist activists.