DE GAULLE, General Charles André Joseph Marie (1890-1970), President of France . Autograph letter signed to an unidentified colonel [Gromard?], n.p. [Beirut], 2 January 1931, 2 pages, large 4to (small splits in edges of central horizontal fold).
DE GAULLE, General Charles André Joseph Marie (1890-1970), President of France . Autograph letter signed to an unidentified colonel [Gromard?], n.p. [Beirut], 2 January 1931, 2 pages, large 4to (small splits in edges of central horizontal fold). A CAUSTIC APPRAISAL OF THE CURRENT STATE OF THE REGION: 'Le Levant est toujours calme, si l'on peut qualifier ainsi l'état d'excitation perpétuelle des esprits orientaux quand il n'a pas de conséquences sanglantes immédiatement. Il se trouve ici des populations qui n'ont jamais été satisfaites de rien ni de personne mais qui se remettent à la volonté du plus fort pour peu qu'il l'exprime et une puissance mandataire qui n'a pas encore bien vu par quel bout il convenait de prendre son mandat. Cela fait une incertitude chronique ...'. De Gaulle served in the Near East as a Lieutenant Colonel with the Levant Forces from 1929-1931. His Histoire des Troupes du Levant , written in collaboration with two brother officers, was published in the year of his return. The French had received the mandate, under the League of Nations, of Lebanon and Syria in 1919 when the Ottoman Empire was divested of its former provinces; the Lebanese constitution was modelled on that of the Third Republic.
DE GAULLE, General Charles André Joseph Marie (1890-1970), President of France . Autograph letter signed to an unidentified colonel [Gromard?], n.p. [Beirut], 2 January 1931, 2 pages, large 4to (small splits in edges of central horizontal fold).
DE GAULLE, General Charles André Joseph Marie (1890-1970), President of France . Autograph letter signed to an unidentified colonel [Gromard?], n.p. [Beirut], 2 January 1931, 2 pages, large 4to (small splits in edges of central horizontal fold). A CAUSTIC APPRAISAL OF THE CURRENT STATE OF THE REGION: 'Le Levant est toujours calme, si l'on peut qualifier ainsi l'état d'excitation perpétuelle des esprits orientaux quand il n'a pas de conséquences sanglantes immédiatement. Il se trouve ici des populations qui n'ont jamais été satisfaites de rien ni de personne mais qui se remettent à la volonté du plus fort pour peu qu'il l'exprime et une puissance mandataire qui n'a pas encore bien vu par quel bout il convenait de prendre son mandat. Cela fait une incertitude chronique ...'. De Gaulle served in the Near East as a Lieutenant Colonel with the Levant Forces from 1929-1931. His Histoire des Troupes du Levant , written in collaboration with two brother officers, was published in the year of his return. The French had received the mandate, under the League of Nations, of Lebanon and Syria in 1919 when the Ottoman Empire was divested of its former provinces; the Lebanese constitution was modelled on that of the Third Republic.
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