Sa'udi charity to Hadhramaut as a bone of contention

In 1948 through 1949, a famine hit the northwestern parts of Hadhramaut, a country in the south of the Arabian Peninsula that is today a part of Yemen. Due to relief measures overseen by the colonial authorities at the time, the British, only few people perished. ¹ Nevertheless, the situation was serious enough that private donations from outside were, in principle, welcome to both the Hadhramis and the British.