Word: syria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gift for telling tales. He made a success in 1939 with a story about a big game hunter's attempt to stalk Hitler with telescopic sights. After that book, Rogue Male,* he went to the Near East as an intelligence officer, seeing action in Greece and intrigue in Syria and Palestine...
...Area That Counts. Even if Western Europe can be kept out of Communist hands (and that is a bold assumption), Red control of Italy would mean that Russian air and submarine power would be able to dispute U.S. access to North Africa, Turkey, Syria (see map). These are precisely the areas which the U.S. would need to mount an air attack on Russia if war came. Deeper bases in Saudi Arabia, the Sudan and Kenya would be menaced from a Communist Italy...
Fawzi Bey had yet to prove that he could capably command a force of many thousands. So far his battles had ended in defeats: by the French in Syria, by the British in Palestine, and in Iraq (where he fought with Nazi help) during World War II. A British plane strafed, and almost killed him, in Iraq. He went to Germany to recuperate. There he helped stir up the Arab world against the British, married a German girl (his third wife), was held by the conquering Russians until February...
Damascus became military headquarters for the Arab drive against Zionism after U.N. voted for partition. Syria's parliament last week voted a military conscription law. Tough-looking Arab warriors in battle dress and kaffiyas (headdresses), crowded the streets on leave from nearby Camp Qatana. Military police of the volunteer army set up standards of discipline unusual in Arab forces. One night last week a volunteer stepped into Freddie's bar (Freddie worked nine years in Detroit factories) to order a drink of arak, a fiery, licorice-flavored distillate of raisins. Two Arab MPs accosted him. "Aren...
...partition of Palestine, Arab leaders in the Middle East have wracked their brains for a way to neutralize American policy. Last week the best they could do was rage and turn an impotent purple. Then the Arab League began to squeeze American oil companies operating in member stated. Syria refused to ratify a giant pipeline deal with the Arabian-American Oil Co., and Lebanon truculently announced that it would spike every concession until the U.S. injected a more neutral flavor into its Palestine policy. Oil men hastily marshalled their lobbies and actively joined the howling chorus against partition...