Word: syrian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans could warm over these resentments and arouse the entire Moslem and Arab worlds against Britain, the geographic guts would be knocked out of the Empire. Berlin, with its talk of jihad, did its best to kindle the Arab sheiks to flame. Newspapers and radio announced loudly that Syrian Arabs were individually telegraphing support and encouragement to Iraq, that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was urging Palestine Arabs to open battle, that Ibn Saud, tough, single-minded leader of Saudi Arabia, was mobilizing his desert legions...
...this was gaily reported in the Egyptian press along with tales of how the Beauty Queen loved her present and fourth husband so dearly that she was having him fed in jail with food sent over from Cairo's most expensive restaurant. It was Husband No. 1, a Syrian millionaire, who left Amina so well off that ever since she has been living the life of a female Tommy Manville. "My Ahmed dearly loves music," she explained to Egyptian reporters, bug-eyed at her jewels, "so I have installed a powerful radio receiver in a teashop near his cell...
...remaining provinces of humid, swampy Equatorial Africa (498,054 sq.mi.; 4,400 whites; 1,986,060 Arabs, Okande, Fiot, Fang, Bateke, Banda, Zandeh, Hausa, Fula and Pigmy tribesmen) had renounced Vichy. This revolt was engineered by General Rene Marie Edgard de Larminat, former Chief of Staff in the Syrian Army, who had escaped to Africa after being imprisoned for attempting to lead the staff to Britain following the French surrender. General de Larminat moved into French territory from his refuge in the Belgian Congo after his agents had arrested the Military Governor at Brazzaville. Appointed by General de Gaulle Commander...
...Heiser relates that a doctor from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem discovered that the Syrian hamster, a type of rodent, could, by inoculation, be made to support the growth of lepra bacilli. In sharp contrast is your statement that: "Since the lepra bacillus will grow in no other animal...
...Cairo Conference on Leprosy two years ago by the reports and demonstrations which Dr. Saul Adler of the Hebrew University at Jerusalem made with respect to his attempts to transmit human leprosy to a small rodent found in the vicinity of Mt. Ararat and which is called the Syrian hamster...