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...about being "tourists," they assumed new roles. A large number were reported to have debarked at Beirut from a hospital ship as fake-wounded, bandaged, limping and laughing. Others, blond, husky, erect, entered via Turkey under bogus passports as refugee Rumanian Jews, their suitcases marked with large Js. At Aleppo, German officers were strutting about in shorts, apparently made up as sportsmen. It seemed there they were also miming French pilots. A group of French fighters which brought down a British bomber were said to have been Nazi-manned...
Faced with a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't choice of action when Nazis began occupying the Aleppo, Palmyra and Damascus airfields in French-mandated Syria, the British made a quick decision. They chose to be damned-for-doing...
...owned by the Turks. The man who rolled it up for the British that fall was General Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, and he threw a three-pronged spear: one prong aimed at Beirut, two prongs at Damascus. In 38 days the three prongs joined in victory at Aleppo. Serving under Allenby was brilliant, 35-year-old Brigadier Archibald Percival Wavell, who went on to write his military master's life and follow in his footsteps as Commander in Chief of the British Imperial Forces in the Middle East. Now Wavell is General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson...
...Aleppo, the French and British commanders met with Turkey's high command in long sessions at which they were reported to have mapped out, in minutest detail, plans for tri-power action in the event of Balkan invasion by Germany or a Caucasian war with Russia. The Balkans buzzed with a report (discounted in London and Paris) that Turkey had promised the Allies free passage through the Dardanelles for war purposes and use of her harbors at Trebizond, Samsun and Sinope for a blockade of the Black...
...mountainous region along the Turkish border on the eastern Mediterranean, the 1,500-square-mile district, is a true Levantine melting pot. The Sanjak contains substantial numbers of Turks, Alaouites, Arabs, Armenians, Kurds, Greeks and Circassians. Only two and a half hours by car from railway junction Aleppo, 200 miles from Damascus (see map), the Sanjak has one irresistible attraction for Great and Small Powers alike: the landlocked Gulf of Alexandretta, even in its undeveloped state one of the safest, best ports of the Levantine coast...