Word: syrians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wide open to flank attacks. To conquer Cyprus, the Axis planes would be farther away (200 miles) from land bases than in last year's attack on Crete. Even if British fighter planes were chased off Cyprus bases, there were other fields only 66 miles away on the Syrian mainland...
...What is Syrian and Lebanese reaction to the independence (from France) won for it by British and Free French forces...
...deed that won him the D.S.O. climaxed the Legion's part in this year's Syrian campaign. Word came to Palmyra that an advancing Vichy motorized column had a good chance of capturing British headquarters there. "Glubb's Girls" were sent to head the Vichy column off. Major Glubb took a look at the column, realized he was hopelessly outnumbered. Leaving six armored cars to hold the attention of the Vichy unit, he skirted for a flank attack. Instead of sitting in defense, the Legion's armored cars attacked almost before Glubb came...
...studied in the Saturday art classes of Greenwich Village's pioneering Little Red School House. Chosen for outstanding talent from New York's public and parochial schools, these children were sons and daughters of taxi drivers, shoemakers, waiters, ranged in race and nationality from Chinese, Polish and Syrian to Harlem Negro and plain U.S. Anglo-Saxon. Their pictures crawled and bubbled with youthful gusto. They also showed a keen sense of observation, and the painstaking craftsmanship that results from purposeful intention rather than youthful accident...
Though General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck will probably remain Commander in Chief of both, Cairo did not say who would lead the separate armies. Best guess: veteran General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson would take over the Western Desert Army, Australia's General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney the Syrian...