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OR the member of the N.Z.E.F, who can get a little leave, Syria is a real tourist’s country, especially to anybody at all interested in history. Damascus has been called the oldest city in the world. That’s one of those generalisations that don’t mean much, But it is certainly a city with a very long and interesting history. To those who know their New Testament, it will be interest-
ing to walk up the roofed arcade, which is "the street called straight." It isn’t particularly straight, but that doesn’t take away from the interest. Damascus is a curious mixture of new and old, east and west, squalor and beauty. Camels lounge grunting through the narrow alleys, over which the houses lean top-heavily towards each other. Modern electric trams carry their loads of "clay faces," as the nomad desert Arab contemptuously names the town dweller.-(National Service Talk, 2YA, April 20.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 150, 8 May 1942, Page 3
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152Ancient And Modern New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 150, 8 May 1942, Page 3
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