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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...
Egypt's Premier, Nahas Pasha, has one good eye and one that veers off at a tangent. Perhaps the second eye has been roving over the restless Middle East; perhaps it winked at the Fighting French Commander-in-Chief for Syria and Lebanon, General Georges Catroux, and certain political leaders of these onetime French mandates. In Cairo last week they were closeted with Nahas, hatching plans that, after World War II, the Middle East shall be un-mandated...
...From the Vichyfrench administration they had inherited two headaches: food scarcities, caused by a year's British blockade, and a Syrian mistrust of anyone who spoke French. For the first headache the British supplied an antidote in shipments of wheat, rice, coffee. For the second headache General Catroux had a prescription: a promise of post-war independence. But to President Attasi the Fighting French were political nobodies; he refused to negotiate with them. Ousting Attasi and his ministers, Catroux named as president a Syrian whose chief virtue was his willingness to negotiate: Mohammed Tageddine el Hassani. A flimsy, stopgap...
...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...
...world got a new 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...