Word: syria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First company to be hauled up on the Senate's dissecting table was Export Steamship, a flashy young hustler born in 1919. Most travelers know that American Export Lines operates a fair-to-middling passenger service out of New York through the Mediterranean to the Levant (Palestine, Syria, Egypt), that its best boats all have names beginning with ''Ex" (Excalibur, Exochorda, Exeter, Excambion), the first of which Mrs. Herbert Hoover christened. Senator Black's investigation disclosed the following about Export Steamship's past and present...
...that most of them do not originally belong to Irak, the government of Irak has been very generous and kind to all of them. She offered them land and money, but a section of them refused to settle down or give up arms. Armed, they cross the boundary to Syria. The French authorities in Syria take away the arms from some of them, then after some consideration they give them back better fighting arms. Now they cross back, charge a small Iraki garrison after pretending surrender to it, cut three lieutenants to pieces while alive, kill 20 soldiers and wound...
...punished them in a manner that ought by no means to send the alarm of "massacre" and "fanatical slaughter" ringing in sections of the Western press. The government then communicated to the League of Nations its complaint against the way the situation was handled by the French authorities in Syria...
Bagdad newspapers accused the Assyrians of coming down like wolves on Irak troops and starting all the trouble. Their story was that an Assyrian rebel chief named Yaku has been weaving back & forth across the frontier between Irak and French Syria where he is suspected of obtaining arms. Not long ago Yaku, after treating with agents of the Irak Government, agreed to return and give up his arms. Instead he swooped with wolflike treachery upon a small Irak force sent to accept his surrender, killed 20 Iraki, wounded 45. Worse than treachery, according to the Mohammedan point of view...
...name, and another is 67 years old. Tink Sik Tse lived the greatest distance from Cambridge, Canton, China. The sons of two ranking dignitaries in the Japanese army and navy, as well as the son and daughter of millionaires are enrolled along with students from the Phillipines, Costa Rica, Syria...