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have resurrected from family archives, taken about 1925 when my
grandfather was the American Consul in Damascus and my grandmother was trying to
establish a career as a photo-journalist, and together they visited the
Djebel Druze in Syria, at the time of the Druze rebellion against the
French mandate authorities. For their initiative my father was declared
the equivalent of persona non grata and subsequently forced by the
French (with the acquiescence of the State Department) to be transferred
to Beirut, where they could keep an eye on him. Of course when he
returned to Damascus as the American Minister in 1948 he was greeted as
a hero of Arab nationalism, rather than as an eager beaver Foreign
Service reporter, which is what he was in 1925.
Click on each small photo to enlarge it, once you go to the site.
06.13.2003

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