Word: beirut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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French Putsch. In the Lebanese capital, Beirut, which lies between the bay where St. George slew his dragon and the hills where Solomon got his tall cedars, French officers and helmeted Senegalese soldiers summarily arrested Lebanon's President Bechara El Khoury, Premier Riad Solh and his cabinet ministers. By the day's end, Parliament had been dissolved, a puppet regime led by Francophile ex-President Emile Eddé had been installed, newspapers banned, martial law and curfew imposed, troops posted in squares. Having ordered these measures, French Delegate General Jean Helleu leaned back, ready for the worst...
...French kept a tight seat. To Beirut General Charles de Gaulle sent his ace mediator and Moslem expert, General Georges Catroux. In a thinly veiled reference to British imperialists, the French imperialists said: The Levantine Arabs are "under the influence of elements who are not so interested in Lebanon's independence as in pushing France...
...News Chronicle's reliable Derek Patmore wrote from Istanbul that the Lebanese capital and chief port, Beirut, had begun to rival Cairo as an Allied base. "The huge concentrations of United Nations troops in Syria and Lebanon seem to confirm the general feeling that attacks on the Greek Islands and the Dodecanese will take place in the near future." Besides "extremely important units of British and Imperial troops," there was in this theater a Greek army "fully equipped with the latest weapons and totaling 30,000 men. Supplies are pouring in from Egypt. It can now be revealed that...
...Hobson, author of a highly entertaining history of syncopation, American Jazz Music-a phonograph addict who plays the trombone with more vigor than skill. The Music researcher is Mary Gleason, who studied at Smith, Columbia and Trinity College, Dublin, was secretary to the dean of the American University of Beirut, Syria, and later researched for the Encyclopaedia Britannica in London...
Last year Mannheim Kalaf, now the head of a family and the proprietor of a Superior grocery store, decided that 25 years without hajjel was plenty. Brooding brought action: he wrote the U.S. Consul in Beirut, Syria. The consul gave him encouragement but no hajjel. Then Western Cartridge Co. heard about his quest, got hold of 30 hajjel and sent them to a surprised but grateful Mannheim Kalaf. He turned 26 loose in the hills, kept four cocks for training. (One of these warriors has licked the tail feathers off every rooster in Superior...