Word: druse
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Syrian and Druse representatives, unofficially present, protested so violently against Senator de Jouvenel's report that they were expelled from the session, departed vociferously calling upon Heaven to witness the perfidy of the French...
Speaking in straightforward fashion, M. de Jouvenel described the bombardment of Damascus (TIME, Nov. 9) as a police necessity, characterized the savage Druse tribesmen as "inveterate trouble makers." Even as he spoke French machine guns were crackling in Syria. More than 100 Druses were slain during "mopping up" operations by French troops last week...
Recently conditions have if anything been aggravated. As an outcome of the Druse warfare which took place in Syria last year, during which parts of Damascus were bombed and laid in ruins, and villages in the Lebanon Mountains were destroyed, many of the orphans who had been placed with relatives by the efforts of the Near East Relief were made homeless. And now the city of Beirut is filled with refugees chiefly women and children, penniless and without any means of support or protection, who have only the rags they are wearing to shield them from the chill Syrian winter...
...Druse Mejliss (Parliament) to be convened for the purpose of adopting the constitution and deciding whether the Jebel Druse territory (literally the Mountain of the Druses) is to be constituted as an independent nation or attached to the Syrian Federation of which Damascus is the capital...
...France agrees to assist in the establishment of either of these alternative regimes at the discretion of the Druse Mejliss when it shall be formed. Further, "All that France asks of the Druses, Syrians, Libanians and Alaouites is to guarantee together a common exterior frontier, and for internal disputes to avoid fighting and seek the arbitration of France, whose aims are prosperity, peace and justice. The Druse chiefs now have only to lay down their arms...