Beginning of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant_Crisis" id="mwAQE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Levant Crisis">Levant Crisis</a> between Britain and France in Syria. The latter try to quell nationalist protests but backs down after threat of military action by the British.<sup about="#mwt106" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"}}' id="cite_ref-18" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_16#cite_note-18" id="mwAQI" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 18;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQM">[18]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-18"><cite about="#mwt103" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFDilks2015">Dilks, David (30 January 2015). <i id="mwB0Q">Churchill and Company: Allies and Rivals in War and Peace</i>. I B Tauris. p.<span id="mwB0U" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>150. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB0Y" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB0c" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9781780769677" id="mwB0g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9781780769677"><bdi id="mwB0k">9781780769677</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt103" class="Z3988" id="mwB0o" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Churchill+and+Company%3A+Allies+and+Rivals+in+War+and+Peace&amp;rft.pages=150&amp;rft.pub=I+B+Tauris&amp;rft.date=2015-01-30&amp;rft.isbn=9781780769677&amp;rft.aulast=Dilks&amp;rft.aufirst=David&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+16"></span></span>