Word: syria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secret Sykes-Picot Agreement. With the Armistice both powers took steps to be sure that no Arab state of real importance could arise by cutting off the richest territory as league of nations mandates. Mesopotamia with its rich Tigris-Euphrates valley went to Britain as Irak; France took Syria, also rich in oil. Aden, at the mouth of the Red Sea, had been British since...
...Society of Antiquarians, maker of Sunbeam automobiles and bicycles. A member of the House of Laity of the Church of England Assembly, Sir Charles is a hearty believer in the Holy Bible. Since 1925 he has spent a fortune on archaeological expeditions in Palestine, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Syria, to bolster up Biblical lore which in the past 150 years has been assailed by "Higher Criticism"-comparison of ancient texts and detective work on internal evidence. Last month Sir Charles published an account of his work: New Bible Evidence.* The potsherds, cuneiform tablets, scarabs, bricks, cartouches, scraps of foodstuffs and cloth...
...unfortunate for French politicians that just as these distractions were getting under way and the riots in Vienna were monopolizing the front pages of the Press, French constabulary in Beirut, Syria should have arrested Elie Sacazan. A second Stavisky is Swindler Sacazan, director of one of Stavisky's companies. Swindler Sacazan founded two banks and a bucket shop in Paris, all of which collapsed for a loss of approximately $22,500,000 to French investors. Twenty-three indictments have been brought against him in the past six years. He was sentenced to two years in jail in Algiers...
Reward. French Flyers Codos & Rossi made a world's record distance flight last August from New York to Syria (5,700 mi.), in anticipation of a 1,000,000 fr. prize announced by France's youthful Air Minister Pierre Cot. Having mortgaged themselves up to the hilt to raise some 750,000 fr. for expenses, Heroes Codos & Rossi learned last week that the Government, economizing, had changed its mind about the prize...
...that hour the Turkish Grand National Assembly proclaimed the Republic with Kemal as President and entitled him to unlimited reelection. The genius of his program lay in that he renounced all the former non-Turkish possessions of the Ottoman Empire-Syria. Palestine, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Egypt. Unlike new Germany, new Turkey is led by men who have resolutely forgotten the past. From the start President Kemal, like President Roosevelt ten years later, launched his country on a policy of economic nationalism. Incidental to this basic policy, and far more spectacular, were his Westernizing reforms, his turning of Turkey's face...