Word: beys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rolls. Then a redhaired, blue-eyed man, who looked more German than Arab,* climbed into one of the sedans. The convoy filed out of Damascus, swung southward into Palestine. The Teutonic-looking man borrowed a phrase from General Douglas Mac Arthur. Said he: "I have returned." Ahead of Fawzi Bey Kawukji had come some 10,000 Arab volunteers. About one thousand more are entering each week. The Arab "rescue" of Palestine had begun...
...Defeats. Although Fawzi Bey, once an officer in the Turkish army, was born in Lebanon 53 years ago, he was no stranger to Palestine. There he got some of the 80-odd wounds which still sometimes make his popeyes water with pain. He had spent a lifetime fighting for Arab independence against the British and French. Now he was returning to Palestine to command the northern sector in the fight against Zionism...
...Fawzi Bey had yet to prove that he could capably command a force of many thousands. So far his battles had ended in defeats: by the French in Syria, by the British in Palestine, and in Iraq (where he fought with Nazi help) during World War II. A British plane strafed, and almost killed him, in Iraq. He went to Germany to recuperate. There he helped stir up the Arab world against the British, married a German girl (his third wife), was held by the conquering Russians until February...
...Whatever the doubts of his military ability, there was no doubt about the magic of his name among Arabs. So far, because of that magic, he has been largely a front in the Arab recruiting drive. The top command in the Arab war on Zionism has passed from Fawzi Bey to others. Above Fawzi Bey in the military hierarchy are two Iraqis: slight, hawk-nosed Taha Pasha Hashimi, commander in chief, and swarthy, glowering Safwat Pasha, overall field commander...
Last week, after Fawzi Bey had moved to Palestine, one Syrian said: "Arabhistory is repeating itself. In the Crusades, Saladin had to free Jerusalem from the infidels. Today Fawzi Bey is our Saladin...