Word: syria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the fanatically brave, nomadic Druses of Syria were waging guerrilla rebellion against the French (1922-27) it was several times stated by correspondents that the French commanders from General Maurice Sarrail down were wantonly cruel in suppressing the rebellion, and, in some cases, incompetent. Naturally the French Government could take only one attitude toward such charges at the time, flat denial; but last week War Minister Paul Painleve said before the Senate Military Committee in answer to a question: "I cannot deny that the War Ministry holds General Michaud sufficiently responsible for the wiping out of the column under...
Professor G. Diehl's courses in Fine Arts 14G, and 14F., dealing with "The Role of Syria in the Formation and Expansion of Byzantine Art" and "Byzantine Art in the 14th and 15th centuries" will be given on Tuesday and Thursday respectively at 3 o'clock in the Fogg Art Museum Lecture Room...
...Diehl of the Sorbonne of Paris, who was exchange professor at Harvard fifteen years ago, will return to Cambridge soon on special invitation of the Department of Fine Arts and History, to give courses during the second half year on "The Art of Byzantine" ("The Role and Influence of Syria in Byzantine Art" and "The Last Renaissance of Byzantine Art") and on "The History of Byzantium" respectively...
...have smiled awry had he known that the Hearst Sunday Feature Service was broadcasting what purported to be a speech delivered by President Mustafa Kemal Pasha to his "War Council" at Angora. President Kemal Pasha was quoted as saying that he had received assurances from Persia, the Egyptian Nationalists, Syria, Afghanistan, Mesopotamia, China and Soviet Russia that those nations are ready to enter "an Oriental League of Nations predominated by Russia and Turkey . . . supported by a million bayonets . . . with the potential possibilities of arraying ten million fighting men against ... the West." To serious diplomatic watchers of the sky, the annoying...
...Discussed in secret the secretly presented report on foreign affairs of Foreign Minister Sir Austen Chamberlain. The report is persistently rumored to contain an allusion to the alleged intention of France to transfer to Italy her troublesome League Mandate in Syria-Italy then to abstain from all interference with French interests in Morocco...