Word: beirut
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Precocious U. S. tots, keen students of geography, might have nonplussed their parents last week by "bounding" Great Lebanon as follows: "North, the Nahr-el-Kebir; south, the frontier of Palestine; west, the Mediterranean coast; east, the heights of anti-Lebanon." Super-tots lisped that Beirut is the seat of government; that the population was 628,863 at last reports; that cedars have given the country universal fame...
...Syria last year, during which parts of Damascus were bombed and laid in ruins, and villages in the Lebanon Mountains were destroyed, many of the orphans who had been placed with relatives by the efforts of the Near East Relief were made homeless. And now the city of Beirut is filled with refugees chiefly women and children, penniless and without any means of support or protection, who have only the rags they are wearing to shield them from the chill Syrian winter and the burning desert sun of summer...
...Henry de Jouvenel, the French High Commissioner to Syria, discharges, when at Paris, the routine if important duties of Senator and acts as editor-in-chief of Le Matin. Now, however, he has been installed at Beirut (TIME, Dec. 14) to act as pacifier extraordinary and conciliator plenipotentiary to the rebellious and half-nomadic peoples whose sporadic attacks make it so difficult and expensive for France to administer Syria as a League of Nations mandate. Last week M. de Jouvenel announced that he had received overtures of peace from Sultan Atrash, the warrior chief of the extremely turbulent Jebel Druses...
...Safe at Beirut, noted Chicago Tribune correspondent George Seldes filed a sensational bit of news to the following effect: "The rebels at Damascus have threatened to disembowel me if I ever return there." In Manhattan, Gilbert Seldes, famed esthete and onetime editor of the Dial, received this news of his brother with many an uneasy qualm...
...Henry de Jouvenel, the new French Civilian High Commissioner to Syria (TIME, Nov. 16), arrived at Beirut last week, he was greeted by delegations of nearly all the religious and political groups* in the country except the rebellious Druses. It was estimated that before nightfall 10,000 people had passed through his office, and many Syrian chieftains pledged him their support. The streets of Beirut were decorated in his honor and a very evident attempt was made to stage a "popular welcome" which would wipe out memories of the unpopular and ruthless French Military High Commander, General Maurice Sarrail, recently...