Word: syria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
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...
Though the territory of Great Lebanon was proclaimed a state in 1920, it lies within the French League Mandate over Syria and has only recently been granted a modicum of autonomy...
From South and West Africa, Morocco, Mesopotamia, Transjordania, Tripoli, Tunis, Syria, Libya, Java, India there came to Cairo last week grave and potent Mohammedans, who solemnly entered and squatted within the mosque of Islam's most ancient university, El Azhar
...Sheik Achmet of the Senussites should receive the "Sacred Sword" and begin swishing it near Italian Tripoli; France, if the "Holy Standard" (the third emblem of the Calif) should be unfurled in the Riff by Abd-El-Krim, or by one of the Sultans in the vicinity of Syria...