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Syrian Mandate. The League of Nations Mandates Commission approved last week the report of French High Commissioner to Syria Henry de Jouvenel, upon the much criticized French administration of Syria as a League mandate (TIME, April...
...Henry de Jouvenel, the French High Commissioner to Syria, discharges, when at Paris, the routine if important duties of Senator and acts as editor-in-chief of Le Matin. Now, however, he has been installed at Beirut (TIME, Dec. 14) to act as pacifier extraordinary and conciliator plenipotentiary to the rebellious and half-nomadic peoples whose sporadic attacks make it so difficult and expensive for France to administer Syria as a League of Nations mandate. Last week M. de Jouvenel announced that he had received overtures of peace from Sultan Atrash, the warrior chief of the extremely turbulent Jebel Druses...
Meagre French-censored despatches carried no mention of the reaction produced upon the Druses by these terms. The Druses have long feared and hated the French, and were especially bitter against M. de Jouvenel's predecessor, the ruthless General Sarrail...
Also, on p. 16 of the same issue you head an article about Henri de Jouvenel, Henry est Arrive. Could any mixture of French and English schoolboy jargon be more ridiculous...
...grey rat is black. Henry de Jouvenel was not christened Henri. See p. 408, French Qui Etes-Vous...