King `Abdul-`Aziz on Yemen

After signing the Ta'if Treaty between King `Abdul-`Aziz Al-Saud in 1934 and Ibn Al-Wazir on the Yemeni side after the war between the two sides, John Philby was heard weeping outside of the royal tent.  `Abdul-`Aziz asked him on the reason, and Philby said: Who can takeover Yemen and then abandons it?  `Abdul-`Aziz said: "First, my fathers and grandfathers didn't own Yemen, and no one has been able to achieve security and stability there, and who can rule Yemen with its Zaydis and its problems"?"