Word: syria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week they got the rest of the story: Syria's Gazelle Boy had been committed to a lunatic asylum, was there lapping water from a spring and placidly grazing on the lawn. With the story went a picture of the boy (see cut). He was a lean, trim youngster, apparently used to wearing clothes (his arms were tanned, his body fairly white), obviously in need of a haircut and a bath-and perhaps a new pressagent...
Russian consulates throughout the Middle East had opened their doors to Armenian refugees, promised them homes near Erivan, capital of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. Workers, poor students, intellectuals responded quickly: by the end of 1945, 20,000 had applied in Iran, 35,000 in Syria and Lebanon, thousands more in Greece, Egypt and Palestine...
...with additional support from almost all the 550,000 other Jews in Palestine), in past months had blown up coastal radar stations to help illegal immigrants enter the country. Last week Haganah turned to violence not directly supporting immigration: its leaders boasted of destroying eight bridges into Syria and Trans-Jordan...
Dressed in Western clothes, with his reddish beard shaved off, and equipped with a false passport, the Mufti apparently left France last fortnight on a T.W.A. plane for Egypt. In Cairo he disappeared. Next day a U.P. dispatch from Damascus said that the Mufti was in Syria, at a meeting of the Arab League called to resist the Anglo-U.S. plan for transferring 100,000 European Jews to Palestine. But the U.P. later admitted that the Mufti's whereabouts were uncertain, and the Syrian Government denied that he had entered by air or through any frontier post...
...abbaya (flowing robe) with a gleaming white shirtfront, a white and gold headdress, and the gold chain which in Arab countries takes the place of a crown. Near him were his two sons and his kinsman Abdul Ilah, Regent of Iraq (which Abdullah dreams of drawing into a Greater Syria federation...