Word: syria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carefully guarded back room, behind the huge stage of Paris' Palais de Chaillot, representatives of six nations-Canada, China, Belgium, Argentina, Colombia and Syria-tried for over a week to work out a compromise on Berlin. (The press called them the "neutral nations," although they were all, as the Irish say, neutral against Russia.) The Russians still wanted the Berlin case thrown out of the U.N. Security Council...
Suddenly Vishinsky noticed that Syria's white-thatched Paris el Khouri had fallen asleep. Said Vishinsky with heavy sarcasm: "I wish the distinguished Syrian delegate the best of health. I beg his pardon for disturbing him. I want him to hear me. I hope he does hear me. I do not know what measures will have to be taken in order to make sure that he will hear me . . ." El Khouri finally woke up. What Vishinsky had wanted him to hear was hardly worth...
...hinted that it might call on the U.N. Security Council for sanctions against the Arabs, and lift the embargo on arms to Israel. "The Arabs," declaimed Syria's Faris el Khoury in reply, "are ready to be killed by your atomic bombs." Khoury and everyone else knew that it would not come to that. But the U.S. and Britain (if it continued to arm Arab states) might easily drift into fighting each other by Jewish and Arab proxies: Or, if Britain joined the U.S. in sanctions against the Arabs, the last chance of winning Arab friendship for the Western...
Palestine's native Arabs were panicky, almost leaderless. Outside Palestine, the Arabs were little better prepared. The nations which had brandished the scimitar most fiercely-Syria and Iraq-were obliged to keep a good many troops at home. Iraq, for instance, had hostile Kurds to worry about. Their people were outraged at the prospect of losing part of Palestine after their leaders' boasts and promises. Of the 135,000 soldiers, many of them ill-trained, in the armies of all the Arab states, perhaps 40,000 could be spared for Palestine just now. Even they had arms...
...named Alexander Rubovitz disappeared, someone remembered seeing him on the Jerusalem-Jericho road, being pursued by a man and forced into a cab. The man's cap was found; it contained the initials R.A.F. On that evidence, Roy Farran was accused of Rubovitz' murder. He escaped to Syria, then returned to face a British court-martial, and was acquitted. When Farran left for England in October, terrorists plastered Tel Aviv walls with leaflets: "Farran's time will come. We will go after him until the end of the world...