Word: druse
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...slim 12 then, a desert torch singer fresh from Syria's Jebel Druse country. But Ama's family frowned on such shamelessness ; they bustled her into marriage with Cousin Emir Hassan, chief of the Druses...
Enter Ahmed. Ismahan's days, like Amal's days, were gaudy with melodrama. In 1941 she remarried Cousin Emir Hassan. Her motive was patriotism, not love. She brought him and his fierce Druse tribesmen into the Allied camp, inspired him to help the British take Syria from the Vichy French. Then she got another divorce and another husband, temperamental Ahmed Salem, Egypt's foremost cinema producer...
French Advance. When troops attempted to arrest the rump officials in their hill-country headquarters, Arslan whistled up his Druse riflemen and for three hours skirmished with French forces. The mixup ended when British troops moved in between and clamped down...
...middle of a starry desert night, General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson poked a three-pronged drive into Syria. One prong from Palestine aimed up the coast at Beirut, Syria's No. i port; another from Amman in Trans-Jordan through the mountainous Druse district towards Damascus; the third from Iraq up the Euphrates Valley toward Deir-ez-Zor, one of the most important French garrisons in the country. Royal Navy units gathered off the coast and opened fire, R.A.F. bombers punched hard at airfields...
...four divisions at present in the Syrian campaign, plus an unknown number of native troops, perhaps 400 planes. Part of his forces are De Gaullist Free French under General Georges Catroux, who opened hostilities by proclaiming independence for Syria and Lebanon and then sent his men into Djebel Druse, home of the rough & tough Druses, who hate the Vichy French and are expected to join the Allies...