Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political simoon swept the Levant. In Beirut and Damascus the bazaars seethed. Shops were shut, transport suspended. Students marched defiantly through streets emptied of everything but aloof camels. In their barracks, sullen French troops waited tensely, side by side with nervous French civilians...
...came the explosion. In Damascus and Aleppo anti-French riots broke out. Scores of people were killed or injured. In Beirut French shops were burned. (British stores in the same blocks were spared). Strikes spread, markets closed. Nervously, the French explained that the Senegalese had arrived because the Levant was now a French redeploying area for the Far Eastern war. Cried The Lebanon's Premier Abdul Hamid Keramy: "The French think that with their armies they can deprive us of our independence. . . . They can cut off our heads and destroy us, but they cannot touch our independence...
...between the ages of 18 and 60 for the Syrian national guard. It also voted immediate credits to increase the Syrian gendarmerie by 5,000 men. Both states abruptly broke off negotiations with France. Later there was bloody street fighting between French and Syrians in Hama. (In his Damascus home President Shukri el-Kuwatly, in bed with an intestinal ulcer, suffered a serious relapse and had to have blood transfusions...
Gibran preached a diffuse Christianity without creed or ritual. He organized no church, held no services. Small groups of admirers formed in different cities; Lebanese exiles circulated around him; circles of twelve poets each, appointed for life and acknowledging Gibran as master, were organized in New York, Damascus, Beirut. His poetry in Arabic was apparently more striking than his vague, formless lines in English would suggest...
...mosques and market places of Damascus, those who remembered the good old days when a man's wives were ''The Tethered Ones" shook their heads, quoted the Koran, muttered in their beards. Whence came these foreign notions in the heads of Islam's young women? Through their charitable "Drop of Milk Society" they had boldly arranged a gala ball at a French officers' club, boldly announced that they would discard their veils and dance...