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ON BRITISH HIGH COMMAND IN MIDDLE EAST REGARDING THE OCCUPATION OF SYRIA. STATEMENT BY MR CHURCHILL. (British. Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.32 a.m.) RUGBY. June 24. _ Asked in the House of Commons if he would give an assurance that the High Command in the Middle East had full authority to take whatever measures might appear necessary, however drastic, to occupy Syria at the earliest possible moment, and that no restraint on political grounds was being imposed, Mr Churchill replied: “Yes, not) only has the High Command full authority, but I have specially enjoined them to be guided by military considerations alone.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1941, Page 5
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104NO RESTRAINT Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1941, Page 5
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