The prize categories were all war-related: Strengthening the South, Strengthening the North, and Strengthening the Home Front, Reservists, and Diaspora.
If Patel was the one who laid out the initial framework for persuading the princes to join, it was his secretary, V.P. Menon, who did the actual groundwork of coaxing them. The final touch in the process was applied by the Viceroy Lord Mountbatten.
The US, Britain and the Israeli regime have made desperate bids to sow the seeds of division in Yemen but the nefarious plots have failed, says a senior Yemeni official.