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...support for General Montgomery. He flew 66 missions before being shot down and captured over Tunis. He tried to escape and nearly succeeded--disguised as an Arab, with blackened face and dirty blanket, he managed to get by one German patrol before taking refuge in "a hole at El Hama." There, he says, "I made a poor choice of Arab friends, and one of them turned me over to the Italians. They tried me as a spy before the high command while the British were shelling the hell out of the town. Everyone was preparing to pull out, but they...
...Patriarchate-archbishops in long beards and flowing black robes, city dwellers from Beirut and Damascus in Western suits and tarbooshes, Christians from the Hauran Desert in Arab headdresses. Each delegate was allowed three nominations. In the balloting, 42 votes went to Archbishop Ignatius Hraike, a stern Arab nationalist from Hama, Syria, 32 votes went to 73-year-old Archbishop Theodosios Abu Rajaili of Tripoli, oldest of the archbishops. Tied for third place were pro-Soviet Candidate Ghea and young Archbishop Elias Moawad of Aleppo, reputedly the most anti-Communist...
...member of a vehemently anti-Communist right-wing political party. In Syria's brief and lackluster 1948 campaign against the Palestine Jews, he served as a volunteer-and improved the hour by smuggling arms intended for the front to his personal, home-town political organization in Hama...
Arabs and Frenchmen in the Levant were on edge. At a soccer game in Hama an Arab crowd began yelling "Pas de goal" ("Block that kick"). Sensitive Frenchmen thought they heard "A has De Gaulle" ("Down with De Gaulle"). That did it. Rioting spread from Hama to Horns and then to Damascus. The wild Djebel Druse country rose. Last week the trouble between Arabs and Frenchmen in the Levant (TIME, June 4) suddenly became the world's trouble...
Death in Damascus. In all of Syria and Lebanon, the French had only five or six battalions when the riots started. But the French set their hated Senegalese troops to "restoring order" with the utmost violence. By last week Horns, Hama and Aleppo were under control, twelve French soldiers and several hundred Arabs had been killed before, in the words of a French communique, "at Damascus it was necessary to use artillery...