Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dates from the Cairo conference of Arab leaders when Arabia's King Saud, fresh from his U.S. visit, pointedly lectured Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly on the importance of fighting Communist infiltration. Emboldened by Saud's advice, portly, opportunistic Shukri el Kuwatly went back to Damascus, called in Chief of Staff Tewfiq Nizam el Din, and drew up orders transferring some 120 pro-Serraj army officers to out-of-the-way posts. For Serraj himself, Kuwatly and Nizam el Din chose an ironically suitable post: Syrian representative to the joint Arab military command in Cairo...
...calls Nasser's Mein Kampf, but the comparison with Hitler is unfair: Nasser came to power bloodlessly and, though a dictator, conducted no bloody Putsch of his political enemies. In his book he talked about Al Umma al Arabia-"the Arab nation"-which would extend from Cairo and Damascus to Baghdad and Amman, and of a role in the Arab world searching for a hero. It was a first warning to the few who read it. He began covertly, then more openly, to play the neutralist game of East against West. He first welcomed, then suddenly denounced...
...correspondents in Damascus watched some 3,000 Syrian volunteers parade with oily new Czech-made Tommy guns, and had a look at artillery and tanks newly arrived from Soviet-bloc countries. The Syrian army chief firmly denied that Soviet-type planes had arrived recently in Syria. Syria, an economically sound if politically unhealthy nation, is getting arms cut-rate from Russia, and paying out of current funds. Unlike Nasser's Egypt, which has mortgaged perhaps half of its cotton crop to pay for Communist arms, Syria is in little danger of having its exports cornered by the Russians (Syria...
...became the new headline favorite. A flimsy agrarian republic about the size of North Dakota, Syria tries hard to sound like Nasser's most ferocious ally, though in fact it is about the weakest sister of the Arab world. The glory of the caliph's Damascus has been gone for 1,200 years. Modern Syria as a nation dates only from the World War I collapse of Turkey's Ottoman Empire. For almost 25 years the French ruled Syria as mandated territory, leaving behind some culture and much hatred. The young Republic of Syria, independent after World...
...This is largely the doing of astute old Premier Nuri es-Said, 68, once an officer in the Ottoman army. His country is oil prosperous, and invests 70% of its royalties in soundly planned long-range improvements (dams, irrigation, schools). But the mobs in the streets, stirred by Cairo, Damascus and Moscow radios, denounce Nuri es-Said as a British stooge. Last week open trouble broke out. For six days Arabs demonstrated in the holy city of An Najaf, killing at least two and injuring hundreds. (Radio Cairo, greatly magnifying the casualties, boasted of open civil war in Iraq.) Nuri...