Word: syria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Israel, the chief fruit of the armistice was the promise that Arab soldiers finally would be withdrawn from all the territory allocated to her under the U.N. partition plan. For Syria, the armistice meant that paunchy little Dictator Husni Zaim could throw himself wholeheartedly into his pet project-proving that he is not a dictator...
...Franco, but Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the maker of modern Turkey. Damascus, until recently one of the most orthodox Moslem capitals in the Middle East, is yielding fast to modern influences. Zaim helped show the way by taking his wife to a cocktail party-a step almost unheard of in Syria. The Moslem veil for women is gradually disappearing and the men's traditional tarbush (red fez) has been going out of style ever since Zaim began appearing at official ceremonies without...
Palatable Rations. Zaim already has completed agreements with U.S. and British oil companies for pipelines through Syria, and has reorganized his army, originally a small, poorly equipped mob of misfits, to a reasonably efficient force of some 27,000. The soldier's pay ($3 a month) is about to be raised, and, for the first time since anybody can remember, army rations are palatable...
Even a softhearted dictator, however, has his enemies. Two of Zaim's are Nuri Said, Premier of Iraq, and King Abdullah of Jordan. Both have long cast covetous eyes on Syria as a desirable part of their respective schemes for an Arab federation. Zaim himself favors a revitalized Arab League, but would prefer to boss it himself. With the Palestine war over, his chances of doing just that seemed to be looking...
...President Truman. The core of the Arab-Israeli deadlock, Ethridge told the President, is the problem of Arab refugees, who have been scrabbling out piecemeal existences in the impoverished Arab states around Israel ever since the British mandate ended 13 months ago. At Lausanne, representatives from four Arab states (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt) steadfastly refused to discuss a final peace settlement until Israel agreed to accept a large proportion of the Arab refugees. The Israelis resisted all attempts to get them to take back the refugees, finally offered a compromise under which they would accept 230,000 of them...