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.

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© Matlida Vossler Keeley 1925