Word: syrian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the seven Arab League states gathered in Cairo to discuss formal war plans. Arab League Secretary-General Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha told Cairo demonstrators who clamored for arms: "You will get arms-an abundance of them. . . . We prefer death to Zionist subjugation. . . ." The Lebanese Parliament voted a million Syrian-Lebanese pounds ($460,000) as a "first installment" donation to the "Palestine Liberation Committee." Deputies pledged one month's pay. Arab youths from Palestine were crossing the border for a month's training with the Syrian army, which had drawn near the Palestine frontier...
...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...
Nevertheless, reports of troop movements increased. This week Palestine watchers said they saw Syrian Arabs, some with armored cars, pitching camp across the border. An "alert" had been sent to Haganah. Somebody (police thought the Arab underground organization, Jihad) tossed a bomb into the compound of the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem...
...South India's Protestants will be members of the new church. Still outside are about 100,000 Baptists (they insist on adult baptism only), 200,000 Lutherans (they demand acceptance of the Augsburg Confession), a small number of U.S. Methodists, and 200,000 members of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church. But the 1,000,000-odd members of the South India Church are a leaven of unity that is already causing ecumenical stirrings in North India, and beyond. Many clergymen hopefully expect that it will eventually spread to England, Europe...
Happy Days. World War II gave henequeneros a new chance. The U.S., through crop purchases, pumped over $50 million into the area. A smart Syrian merchant named Cabalan Macari set up twine and rope factories and made a killing. The old families woke up to the fact that they still had their machinery, and could charge as much for disfibering agave spikes as they could get. By war's end, the number of factories had grown from 11 to 100. In the mansions on the Paseo de Montejo it was like old times...