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Recently conditions have if anything been aggravated. As an outcome of the Druse warfare which took place in Syria last year, during which parts of Damascus were bombed and laid in ruins, and villages in the Lebanon Mountains were destroyed, many of the orphans who had been placed with relatives by the efforts of the Near East Relief were made homeless. And now the city of Beirut is filled with refugees chiefly women and children, penniless and without any means of support or protection, who have only the rags they are wearing to shield them from the chill Syrian winter...
...first day of this book she sends her Kaffir runner with an imperative note to fetch Brand. He takes his wife, and on the longmotor drive out from Lebanon village there is time to recall years that have passed, to puzzle over Mary's trouble, whatever...
They remember how Mary Adams was afflicted with malignant inferiority as a girl in provincial little Lebanon. Her father was head hawker in the public market, a loud man with a mean soul. Her mother was doting and desperately middle class. Mary was a pretty girl stricken with panic by society's failure to come running to her feet more often than it did. Her nature preened itself and craned for admiration, thus repelling it and thrusting the girl into bitter, pitiful snobbery. She grew to despise Brand, or any one, who thought well of her. Yet so determined...
...enemy, by plundering and massacring obliges us to defeat them, you will continue to do so until the day when order and security return to the territory which the League of Nations entrusted to us and we can establish the independence and prosperity to which the people of Lebanon and Syria are entitled and which the rebellion alone delays. Peace to those who want peace; war to those who want...
...PoliticaIly the Syrian mandate is divided into five territories: Damascus, Aleppo, Alaquite, Great Lebanon and the Jebel-ed-Druz. The first three make up the Syrian Federation, of 'which Damascus is the capital. The religious picture is somewhat blurred, but there are roughly about 1% million Sunni Moslems, and 100,000 each of Shia Moslems and Druses in the territory, together with some thousands of Christian converts...