Word: beirut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunny Beirut on the blue Mediterranean, Willkie was met by Syria's Fighting French Commander General Georges Catroux. As the bearlike, blue-suited guest walked past a plumed guard and into the general's palace, bugles sounded...
...Vichyfrench. The British Ninth Army under General Alexander now holds the Mediterranean fringe from Egypt to Turkey. If & when Field Marshal Rommel masters Egypt and Suez, he may choose to turn north toward Syria, seize the Royal Navy's last (and insufficient) eastern Mediterranean bases at Haifa and Beirut, then drive on Iraq. His more direct route to Basra would be straight across the great deserts of Arabia, but even camel trails skirt those wastes...
...largely Christian Lebanon, where Moslems are mistrusted, the Fighting French had better, luck. Last week in Beirut they set up a new government under slight, grave-faced Maitre Sami Bey el Solb, who had fought the Turks in World War I side by side with T. E. Lawrence and King Feisal. Around him Premier el Solh gathered a strong Cabinet and prepared to hold a free election for the Presidency and Parliament. And in Cairo, Premier el Solh has another friend even more potent than Fighting Frenchman Catroux: Egypt's roving-eyed Premier, Nahas Pasha...
...Soldier of De Gaulle, by the French-descended radio singer Conrad Thibault (published by Mills Music, Inc.). United Free France (De Gaulle agency in the U.S.) accepted the song as "official." Copies were sent to General de Gaulle in London, to Free French headquarters in Beirut (Syria) and Brazzaville (French Equatorial Africa). Sample English chorus...
...democracy last week and Free France made character for itself in the Middle East. Two months after he freed Syria, Free French General Georges Catroux announced the end of France's Mandate over Lebanon, Syria's coastal neighbor, pronounced it an independent republic with its capital at Beirut...