Word: syria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state for the Jews to name? Could U.N. make its decision stick? While city crowds celebrated, Arabs ambushed two buses in an orange grove southeast of Tel Aviv, sprayed them with gunfire. Five Jews died, 14 were wounded. Arab prisoners attacked Jews in Acre prison. In Damascus, Syria, Moslem youths stoned the U.S. Legation, tore down the U.S. flag, and then looted the Russian-Syrian Cultural Center...
Politically, the seeds of Arab disunity over the projected Arab portion of Palestine are already sown. The Hashemite-ruled countries of Trans-Jordan and lraq harbor long-range designs towards Syria as well as Arab Palestine, while the Mufti of Jerusalem sees the new state as the core of an ever-widening personal empire. To the North, the Christian Lebanese prefer a Jewish to a Moslem neighbor, while Ibn Saud of Arabia has already acknowledged that his oil concessions will be continued, whatever the UN decides for the Holy Land. Although the Arabstates could unite against partition, long term objective...
...second phase of the operation would involve a fast offensive against the Iberian peninsula and penetration across the Mediterranean into North Africa, at the same time engaging a powerful attack through Persia, Iraq and Syria aiming at the Suez Canal...
...ledger is not in the red; at the request of President Shukri Bey Kuwatly of Syria, Bayard Dodge recently founded a new school in Damascus, and he has promised to build a modern agricultural college in Iraq. En route to Syria last week, as first director of the new Damascus College, was an American with a name known with respect in the Near East. The new director: Howard Huntington ("Hunt") Bliss, 45, grandson of A.U.B.'s founder and brother-in-law of Bayard Dodge...
...Middle East, the Far East, and, to some extent, Latin America, that postwar air travel has become indispensable to TIME'S news operations. Our Cairo bureau, for instance, figures that it has a million square miles of territory to operate in. Its correspondents can cover Palestine, Lebanon and Syria by automobile; the rest is swiftly accessible only by plane. But when proof was needed of the Russian evacuation of the Iranian province of Azerbaijan, a bureau correspondent hopped into a plane flown by the American Embassy's air attache, an ex-fighter pilot, in order...