Word: syrians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shelving. The W.F.T.U. issue also gave Texas Senator Tom Connally a chance to pound the table. He cried that if W.F.T.U. were admitted, UNO would have to take in all sorts of special-purpose groups-even of women. Turning to a Syrian delegate nearby, he shouted: "Would you like to have women in here dictating to us what to do?" The Syrian, caught off guard, replied with a startled "No." Flushed with triumph, Connally kept on pounding. Gromyko whispered to his neighbor, "I hope they have reinforced the table." The W.F.T.U. application was shelved...
...modern eye, St. Simeon Stylites is likely to seem a kind of 5th-Century Shipwreck Kelly*-a symbol of ascetic reductio ad absurdum. To that view, his 38-year residence atop a pillar was only a Syrian sideshow that attracted the curious. The vulgar error of a vulgar age, says Father Augustin C. Wand, S.J., in the current American Ecclesiastical Review. "Simeon the Stylite is not a character about whom we Catholics need to be apologetic...
...received the Croix de la Liberation (his son Prince Moulay Hassan was also decorated-see cut) and was shown a hydroelectric dam in the Auvergne Mountains. Behind these comings & goings was potential trouble in France's North African empire and the specter of France's Syrian debacle (epitomized in the Damascus parliament building wrecked-see cut -by French mortars in an attack which Syrians refer to as "Syria's Pearl Harbor"). North Africa was restive. Like Frenchmen, Moroccans, Algerians and Tunisians were still worried about the food shortage. Last year, arid Morocco had its worst drought since...
...British seemed reluctant to take another step that might further disrupt relations with their essential, difficult ally. French General Fernand Oliva-Roget suddenly turned up in Paris, where he denied that his shelling of Damascus had been "indiscriminate." He said that the outbreaks had been deliberately provoked by Syrian police in the hope of British intervention. How much the British had encouraged the demonstrators he would not guess, but he added darkly that the identity of British agents in Syria was "perfectly well known...
...nuzzled up to the French positions. While the city rang with welcome to the British, and Paget's red, handsome face beamed, Roget angrily ordered his men back to barracks. He raged that the British had shown up only after he had "restored order," and he told a Syrian journalist: "You are replacing the easygoing French with the brutal British." Unimpressed, Syrians killed what stray Frenchmen and Senegalese they could find. After curfew, the humiliated French had to accept British escort to places of safety...