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Footnotes 1 Early in 1942, R.G. (later Lord) Casey, Australia's Minister at Washington, was asked by Churchill to become the British War Cabinet's Minister of State in Cairo. Casey's acceptance caused heated exchanges between Churchill and the Australian Prime Minister, John Curtin. See PREM 3 305/2 (Public Record Office, London). 2 See, e.g., S.H. Longrigg, Syria and Lebanon under the French Mandate (London, 1958), and G.E. Kirk, A Short History of the Middle East (London, 1964). 3 Author's interview with Sir Geoffrey Furlonge, former British Consul at Beirut, and Political Officer with the 7th Australian Division in June 1941. 4 G. Catroux, Dans La Bataille de Mediterranée (Paris, 1949), 18–69. 5 Havard tel., 12 October 1940, F0371/24594/E2774 (PRO, London). 6 MacMichael tel., 21 Nov. 1940, FO371/24592/E2980, and Lampson tel., 21 Dec. 1940, FO371/24595/E3084. 7 A.B. Gaunson, The Anglo‐French Clash in Lebanon and Syria 1940–45 (London, 1987), 27–44. 8 C. Buckley, Five Ventures (London, 1954), 48f, 9 FO371/27214/E2915. 10 Buckley, Five Ventures , 56. 11 Ibid., 61, 136f., and A. Mockler, Our Enemies the French (London, 1976). In addition, the 2/3rd Australian Battalion took Damascus on 21 June 1941—the second time within 25 years that Australians had taken this
Australian Journal of Politics and History – Wiley
Published: Dec 1, 1987
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