Basic gaffes in serious nonfiction histories are suprising and disappointing: Currently reading
A History of Modern Lebanon by Fawwaz Traboulsi and this anachronism caught my eye
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In 1924, the French mandatory authorities decided to settle Armenian refugees in Syria and Lebanon and naturalise them. In Lebanon, Emile Edde welcomed the decision as it increased the number of Christians in the country, as Muslim politicians opposed it. Two years later, High Commissioner de Jouvenel ordered the implementation of settlement and naturalisation. The United Nations supported his decision though it was implementing a project of settling Armenian refugees in Soviet Armenia. In 1929,
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e.a.
If I read this correctly, the United Nations supported a decision made around 20 years before the United Nations existed.
