Word: syrians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High point of Willkie's Syrian visit was his conversation at the palace with General Charles de Gaulle. Willkie entered the general's columned personal salon in his same blue business suit. De Gaulle, in white dress uniform with his hair plastered like a schoolboy's, was seated before paintings pf Napoleon as a youth and as Emperor and had a pedestaled bust of Napoleon at his left hand. He expressed his desire for a more important place at the United Nations council table. When Willkie suggested occasional compromises for purpose of unity, De Gaulle stood...
...control the inner Mediterranean. The man waiting on that approach is the Luftwaffe's General Alexander Löhr, commander of all German forces in the Balkans, Crete and the Aegean Islands. A solely airborne thrust from Crete to the British island of Cyprus and on to the Syrian mainland would be difficult and costly, and it may be beyond the resources of the strained Luftwaffe (see p. 38). But General Löhr will be in a better position if Rommel extends his control of the southern Mediterranean to Suez. Then the Germans could move forces from southern...
...Syria last year, the British, assuming military control, handed over civil control to their De Gaullist allies. Britain's job was to prepare strategic Syria against the threat of Nazi invasion. Scores of new airdromes were built, 4,000 miles of highways repaired or constructed across the Syrian badlands...
...Fighting French had a tougher, more thankless job. From the Vichyfrench administration they had inherited two headaches: food scarcities, caused by a year's British blockade, and a Syrian mistrust of anyone who spoke French. For the first headache the British supplied an antidote in shipments of wheat, rice, coffee. For the second headache General Catroux had a prescription: a promise of post-war independence. But to President Attasi the Fighting French were political nobodies; he refused to negotiate with them. Ousting Attasi and his ministers, Catroux named as president a Syrian whose chief virtue was his willingness...
...Marshal also countenanced certain outright military aid to the Axis. French Indo-China was yielded to the Japanese, with the catastrophic results visible since Dec. 7. Last year Axis planes used Syrian airports en route to Iraq. Recently Vichy shipped gasoline and other supplies to the Axis Libyan armies from French North Africa. Rumors that Axis submarines work out of Dakar have constantly been heard, if as constantly denied...