Word: syria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...including Delhi. Would Indian Army troops revolt again? Already Indian Air Force men had staged sympathy "strikes." Like the Navy mutineers, soldiers demand better pay, better food, faster demobilization. Indian troops, the bulk of British overseas forces, are scattered wide in the world's trouble spots: Greece, Indonesia, Syria, Burma, Egypt, Malaya, Iraq and Hong Kong. If the mutiny should spread among them, Britain's weakened voice in the world's councils would scarcely be able to whisper. The Army remained quiescent, but even trusted veterans were attending secret meetings of extreme nationalist groups. The British Government...
...first session had given a reasonable hope that the nations might be able to get along with each other. But last week, in & out of UNO, came a series of Russian moves, from Canada to Syria to Manchuria, that added up to a worldwide Russian power drive. When the week ended, international relations were at their worst point since...
...Rejected Albania's appeal for immediate admission; C]J Witnessed Russia's first use of the veto power to block a U.S. plan for withdrawing French and British troops from Syria and Lebanon...
Russia donned Mussolini's old mantle as Protector of Islam. Syria and Lebanon had protested against the presence of British and French troops. Tireless Ed Stettinius (who did an effective job of conciliation at UNO) finally got British and French agreement to withdraw "as soon as practicable." Vishinsky, who had argued the strong Levantine case brilliantly, would have none of this compromise...
Dramatically, he invoked the veto. At San Francisco the Big Five had assured the small nations that the veto would be used only as a last resort and on major issues. The Syria-Lebanon issue was not a major one and the difference between Stettinius and Vishinsky was small; observers concluded that Russia would use the veto any time she felt so inclined...