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When his brother, Pierre de Gaulle (whom the elections boosted to Paris' municipal council), telephoned word of the R.P.F. victory to the General's retreat at Colom-bey-les-Deux-Eglises, De Gaulle said merely: "Well, things are going faster than I thought...
...ledger is not in the red; at the request of President Shukri Bey Kuwatly of Syria, Bayard Dodge recently founded a new school in Damascus, and he has promised to build a modern agricultural college in Iraq. En route to Syria last week, as first director of the new Damascus College, was an American with a name known with respect in the Near East. The new director: Howard Huntington ("Hunt") Bliss, 45, grandson of A.U.B.'s founder and brother-in-law of Bayard Dodge...
...Arabs proposed a counterplan which represented a high-water mark in their willingness to compromise: a "democratic" Palestine in which the Jews would have "constitutional guarantees against discrimination and guarantees safeguarding their cultural and language rights," representation in the government proportional to their population. Said Abdul Rahman Azzam Bey, Secretary-General of the Arab League: "I am looking forward to the day when there will be a Jewish representative for Palestine in the Arab League...
Tunisia's nationalist Labor Federation was sabotaging the French "imperialist" commonwealth wherever possible, threatened to paralyze the Government's broadened colonial program with a three-day strike, fomented Arab demonstrations for the Bey's return...
Last week 52 nationalist agitators were jailed. Unjailed leaders announced that they were drafting a "white paper" to prove that the Bey had never collaborated that he had been illegally deposed: since he is a legitimate monarch, the Bey can be deposed "only...