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...make sure of being strong nowhere. . . . Suppose we had never gone to Greece. And suppose we had never defended Crete. Where would the Germans be now? Suppose we had simply resigned territory and strategic points to them without a fight, might they not . . . already be masters of Syria and Iraq and preparing themselves for an advance into Persia...
Objective of the upper column, of British-led Arabs from Iraq, was Aleppo, the old Hittite city with a 12th-Century Saracen citadel. There, two weeks ago, Nazis had begun air concentration. Latakia, famed for its dark and pungent tobacco and Syria's northernmost port, was another objective of this British-Arab column. Latakia is vital to the defense of 70-mile offshore Cyprus, which was bombed by Axis planes for 48 relentless hours last week...
...starry desert night, General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson poked a three-pronged drive into Syria. One prong from Palestine aimed up the coast at Beirut, Syria's No. i port; another from Amman in Trans-Jordan through the mountainous Druse district towards Damascus; the third from Iraq up the Euphrates Valley toward Deir-ez-Zor, one of the most important French garrisons in the country. Royal Navy units gathered off the coast and opened fire, R.A.F. bombers punched hard at airfields...
Keystone Contention. Syria, slightly smaller than Nebraska, is the keystone of the whole Middle East. Firmly established there, the Germans could: 1) complete the encirclement of Turkey; 2) march on to Iraq and its oil fields; 3) execute a super-colossal grand slam on Palestine, Trans-Jordan and the Suez Canal, which, coupled with a drive from Libya, would chase the British out of the Mediterranean Theater. As it stood, the Germans had already bypassed Cyprus...
...Oppenheim, 81, who has been snooping around the Near East since 1893. Born of a Cologne banking family, short, fat, bouncy, shoe-button-eyed, he has agreeable manners and an Arctic mustache. A crack archeologist, he discovered and dug up at Tell Halaf in Upper Mesopotamia (now Iraq) a temple-palace stuffed with nightmarish, colossal statuary carved by the Subaraeans, a people flourishing around 3500 B.C. Off & on, the digging continued for more than 18 years: his treasures were split between museums in Berlin and Aleppo...