Word: syria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet's Program: 1) To shelve the Moroccan and Syrian questions temporarily, while waiting for the return of General Sarrail, who is being recalled to justify his policy of ruthlessness as French High Commander in Syria (TIME, Nov. 9). 2) To straddle the "capital levy" issue by demanding "an immediate sacrifice" from "all forms of wealth" instead of from "capital." 3) To secure passage for the highly popular Locarno Treaties. 4) To resume debt negotiations with the U. S. at an indefinitely later date...
...French Government announced officially that General Duport was being despatched to Syria to act as High Commander temporarily. Later cables reported the appointment of Senator Henri de Jouvenal to succeed General Duport...
Throughout Syria the repercussions of the French bombardment of Damascus (TIME, Nov. 9) continued ominous in the extreme. The city itself was quiet early in the week and the bazars were open. But the territory between Damascus and Horns, 80 miles to the north, was reported swarming with marauding bands; and the Arabs are persistently rumored to have joined with the Druses in an anti-French "Holy...
...Jouvenal, who is Editor-in-Chief of Le Matin, accepted the decidedly thankless post with some hesitation and only after it had been found almost impossible to discover an able civilian statesman who was willing to risk his reputation in Syria. Because he is a civilian, he will be "High Commissioner" rather than "High Com-mander...
Willy-nilly, M. Painleve will be forced to find some 10,000,000 francs a day to keep the French Army in Morocco at its post during the winter-a thankless task. And War Minister Daladier is already faced with the highly delicate situations in Syria (see below...