Article about Daniel da Cruz's trip to the Mideast in 1958-1959 in the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, Sunday, Feb 22, 1959, Section B, p.7, contributed by Cousin Raimundo. "A look at the Middle East thru the eyes of a classical scholar — with some perceptive glimpses into the present-day turbulence which swirls around the ruins of antiquity in those ancient lands — can be had these days in a visit with a retired college professor who has just returned home to Colorado Springs from a two-month tour of Biblical Lands." He delayed his trip for some months due to the 1958 crisis in Lebanon, where his son Daniel (Uncle Pete) had just taken a Lebanese bride (Aunt Leila). Ironically, his other son Frank (my father) was in Lebanon in 1958 taking part in the turmoil.

In the article Daniel speaks of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the plight of the Palestinians, and the Cold War, and advocates a unifed Arab bloc aligned with the West rather than the Soviet Union because "the United States is not a colonialist power". If he were alive today, I think he would be profoundly disillusioned.

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