Word: beirut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broadcasting stations chiefly heard, Arabs listened most (in this order) to: Cairo, London, Jerusalem, Beirut, Sharq-el-Adna, Damascus, New York, Moscow. New York is static-bound (in summer) and in a poor position on the Arab's time schedule. Not enough Arabs know Russian to give Radio Moscow a good score...
...world news, London is more popular than its three nearest competitors (Cairo, Jerusalem, Beirut) combined. It can also be heard more clearly than any but local stations. London made top score for the station which gives "the freshest news, and up to one-third of the listeners said that their own local stations had the stalest news...
Safe in the back hills of Lebanon, some 35 miles from Beirut, a Lebanese rump government sat tight last week and awaited developments in its struggle for independence with the French Mandate authorities (TIME, Nov. 22), Its best game was to wait, to let the pressure of a general strike, uneasiness throughout the Levant and the Arab world, powerful influence from Britain and the U.S. force the French Committee of National Liberation to come to terms...
Lebanese President Bechara El Khoury and Premier Riad Solh were still detained by the French. All titles and portfolios of the rump administration were held by Habib Abou Chala, shrewd, cautious Beirut lawyer, who had been Solh's Vice Premier, and fiercely mustachioed Emir Mejid Arslan, Defense Minister. Indolent, fun-loving Arslan is the reigning prince of the battlewise mountaineer Druses, who gave French forces a mauling in 1927, asked nothing better than another chance to fight the hated Faranji...
...Beirut, diplomats labored and negotiated. General Georges Catroux, rushed in as trouble shooter for General Charles de Gaulle and the French Committee, worked late, his sunken cheeks grey with fatigue, his deep-sunk eyes blazing with anger at "the plot." The existence of "the plot"-to build up British influence in the Levant at French expense-was taken for granted even by sobersided Frenchmen, although any such sinister motives were hotly denied by British Minister Sir Edward Spears and U.S. Diplomatic Agent George Wadsworth...