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Committee for the Defense of the Tenants
We have received from the Committee for the
Defense of the Tenants a manifesto deploring
the "illegal measures" taken by the police on
Sunday against the crowd attending the Tenants'
Committee meeting.
The manifesto then goes on to stigmatize "that
provocation," while adjuring "the mass of
tenants to persist with increased enthusiasm in
defending their right to live."
The Committee ended by stating that it belonged
to no group or party and would continue to hold
meetings to the end.
Yesterday, the Committee received testimonials
of sympathy and fellowship from the majority of
the leaders of parties and organizations.
Quarters' committees were spontaneously formed
throughout the city and sent telegrams to the
authorities supporting the Committee's demands
to defend the Tenants.
L'Orient
15 February 1949
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Many Persons Attending Tenant's
Meeting Brought to Police Station
For Interrogation and Identification
Responding to a new Committee request, a number of
local tenants held a meeting yesterday morning at
the Headquarters of the Federation of Unions of
Lebanese Workers and Employee a.
At the close of the meeting, a large police force
raided the hall. While some of the police drew up
a written statement against the organizers of the
meeting who had not obtained a permit to hold public
meetings as required by the law, others hustled a
large number of the tenants into cars and brought
them to a police station for interrogation and
identification,
The Tenant's Committee protested vigorously against
this new kind of procedure, by pointing out that
similar meetings have been held for twelve years and
the police never considered them outside the law nor
arrested its followers as though they were common
offenders,
Le Jour
14 February 1949
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Advance Salary of One Month to
Employees of the Electric Company
The League of Unions of Workers and Employees
has issued a communique stating that the Electric
Company of Beirut has discharged a large number
of employees and has withheld their indemnity
equal to one monthts salary. This numbed been
allocated as an advance to the employees. An
action was brought against the Company, and the
arbitrators have compelled the Company to give
to the discharged employees and workers the
amount deducted previously from their indemnity.
L'Orient
14 February 1949
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A Wave of Arrests of Unionists
A delegation representing the Tenants visited the
office of L'Orient at noon yesterday and reported
that the Tenants' Committee held a meeting on
Sunday at the Headquarters of the Nederation of
Unions attended by a largo number of persons.
Speeches were made by Nasib NUR, Mustafa al-IARIS,
Georges MIRAMAR and Hasib NIMR. Resolutions were
read by Elias SHAH1N.
At the close of the meetings a detachment of police
arrested a large number of persons present and brought
them in police trucks to the Petit-Serail.
Among the arrestees were the Syndicate Presidents:
Mustafa al-PARIS, Nasib NIMR, and Nasib al-MATNI,
Director of *Telegraph!! These men refused to get
into the police trucks and walked to the Petit
Serail*
L'Orient
14 February 1949
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Policeman Attacked by Communists
While Maurice QAWTABAWI was on guard on the night
of Sunday-Monday at the sentry box on the street
where the Greek Orthodox Hospital in located, he
saw an unknown person delivering Communist tracts
injurious to the Government. He seized the tracts
and was bringing the distributor to the River
Police Station when ten Communists, armed with
revolvers, attacked QAWAHAWI, liberated their
comrade and disappeared into the night.
L'Orient
15 February 1949
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The Population of Lebanon 13 1,232,545
The Muhnfazats have reported to the Ministry of the Interior
that the population of Lebanon is 1,232,545, divided into
the following regions and sects:
Beirut
198.047
Mount Lebanon
363,373
North Lebanon
267,783
South Lebanon
229,178
The Biqa'
174,164
Maronites
355,182
Sunnis
252,220
Shilites
224,368
Greek Orthodox
133,130
Druzes
79,219
Armenians
72,340
Greek Catholics
65,860
Protestants
25,945
Syriacs
9,305
Jews
6,677
Chaldeems
4,420
Latins
4,607
Others
6,226
L'Orient
10 February 1949
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An Agent of Israel
The Buret. General arrested Nimr Dib ARIDI
at Beysour while he was recruiting Druz
for the Israelite Army.
L'Orient
10 February 1949
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Congress of Arab Suretes
A congress of the Suretes of Arab states
will be held at the request of Amir Farid
SHIBAB, Director of the Lebanese Surete
General.
At the Congress, Amir Farid, who studied
Surete methods In London, will present a
plan for collaboration between the Arab
countries inspired by t4e methods of
Scotland Yard and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
Le Jour
10 February 1949
I Etiel Pr"
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Februery do 1949
44,2.iIGAX 1.11.*VIoN,
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heeee that the Cendiliation Commission will suit
n frIir and just report on the results of its -
ineeetigatione and poiets oUt that about thirty flit*
Powers 17 we otr.r recognized the Ieraeli State and
ellikat this state le doing its best to loin the Teel,
Thm paper then (-7eolervs in part;
'r:Al wonder *ether the Seourity Council will .,
recogniee a state -ith no bounderies; Ihether r
the Conciliation Cemmiseion will also Deco:mite
the fait asoompli with the present boundaries of
the rereeli state; and -#hether we the Arebe will
recopelize the, felt a000mpli and leave the bounderies
clueetion teArete and to the Jees who are insisting
on annexing the Negeb, Galilee n.nd Jerutaleln'to
their territcry,
"No the Negeb, Galilee and Jerusalem ahnll net
go to the Israeli state. But the word 'Ire)" is
not enoufi,h, if we do not face this nee cal/Amity ?
as it ihreAd be confronted: with deterMinatiok-e
unity and co-Operation. If we do not now bur7-
everything and return to our Arab Leegue to Omen
its foundgtion end to disouse our many prOblers
in it, who knows at the future will haVe in
store for us? *e may be compelled by cireMestanees
to resume the fighting And to remove the stain
whit smeared our name in the first bettlo we lost in
Peleetine. Jerusalem, Galilee and the Negib
are being threatened by the Jews 'ehile we are
pre-occupying ourelVes with sending this and that
to the Areb countries and while we are lding
extreordinnry meetings instead of moving, all or
us, toward Cairo Where we will meet as united and
sincere brothers to regain our prestige and raory.11
This paper oarries the followingfrticle sinned by "Sheikh
"They sey, we are not responsible for What they
say, thet the number of Palestinian refugee' has
greatly decreased after the Red Crone administration
took over the job of nrovisioning the refugees.
I. this true
"They &my that the milk powder reaching us in
the name of the refugees is being used in certain
oonfe:Itionariess Is this true?
"They say that the good quality woolen blankets
we are reoeivine in the name of the refugees are
replaced by old end rayed blankets. Is this
ale* true?
"They eey other thingA. Let us forget e, at(
they are nall
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"eel: if these rumors ere true, then I must
blueetni hide ry fece.
sret., we Ander why we have lost the battle
of 'Z'Ueetitre!
}eel 7L1T uneerstands from a, reli-ble source that
ArAr Jamil leabab, the Director Generel of
tor f., haz. outwitted his ref:IF:nation to the
,T,oungir f)f Mene-tet e.
reports tt 1hiwd Ali gimad*, Chief of the
Political Dept-x*0W at the Foreign office, eho
represented' Letilten the Asiatic Conference,
per roaehed tho.deleeates,of Pakisten in Nee De/hi
rug Tdii ibility, of Lebanon ooncluding .
eulteerel ere:; commercial- treety with Pakistan
'iiLr) h ne Latbatein has ooncluded with Spain
nzl .1r0000iieapex 'thenadds that IlimadOt sIso
now to ore he net the Pakistan Prime
Vinistee and FoSign 71niater and reeohed an agreement
With t).J.em on Us, prineipal points On twhich the
71.0posed tre ,t7,:,:between the two aountries should lee
bened. This paper's representative hae seen a copy
of the draft treety by chance and found that it
roviec. the exchange of educational missions,
teachere and book., The commercial part of thee.
trezty provides the exohenge of Lebeneee and
Pakistan produots and the creation of commerciel
offiees with attaanes et the Lebenese end ?
Pakistan legations ehioh the treaty etntesighould
be shortly established in Karachi and i'llirre.*
,
writes tie folloeeng in connection with the reported
disceelions for the conclusion of a cultural and
coreercial trenty bet ?een Lebanon and Pakistani
"It was rumored yesterday, on the basis of
press reports, that the Foreleert Office wilted
Vuhammad All ninadeh While he Was attending
the New Delhi Conference, to contact the
Pakistan lovernment for the conclusion of a
cultural and comeeroial treaty between the
to oountries. A reliable sour ee at the
Foreign Office yesterday denied this report
and as3erted that no conteots have been me
with the Pekkettut aovertenent in this respect. 41
devotes its editorial, to the women movement in
Lebanon ehich aims at grenting suffrage to women
so that they eay enjoy equal political privileges
=eith men. In admitting the principle of equality
between the tee) sexes in Lebanon, the editorial
feels thnt the women's demand for parlieetentary
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nta n llt nie Idealism*,
al thcr witinueet
e do not ' jeet for sect -rian or foetal
repolon- bad on the Yell. The veil is
tr- L -nte Wo objeet because we wont the
women to rttrly the right to election
methods of itt appliontion ro thmt
t y ritie! that ran re, exercising this ri t
4 eettl?Tii.prft.,-. to "cmand it, 'lie reqUest
Lr4c women movement to demand
first ti2f.; men enjoy the right to eleot
thoy satisfy themselves that men in
Lebanon ,,re exerrAsing this rii41.t and that they
ting, the women, $ don,-,nd for equality
-1:1n beca 7itirate. lien in T,ebenon
thf,., right to ,Ile,ct but it is v. thorqbetical
t, T)py thr ob-nere 7foren sht0h -Ire their
4uffer 11.1.e ours 1;1 this respeot?"
ol-f,tic.:1,4 vernmeot for crer.ting obstaoles
for delaylnz the rogistrrtion of thc Lab-mese
migros n tl for roduoinc their numbers.
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no progreq.1 the Lebr.t1Pe {",i1V-.enTrient
n-de in the les ne tions. It states that
the appreerit'Ae authorities !eel be right in
retioencet they malt at let milt:lite?' the
'Lebanese publ.ic on the current nemtirtionet whether
intends to nerottate with, the Jews *lone or
to c.r61"1..,nre viewpoints with the Arab countries before
tkinp, r.ny unilater, 1 step in this reepeot. The
Odi to id. al contirfe
0,,s,e are ,,,..-turbed not nnly because of Lebanon's
amblgUour, stand, but because of the Arb states'
attitu.-3e toward the current nemtlAtions in
A-riorles. This attitude is also fraught vie
ituity. legysti nerestieting alone, Lebanon
C'Jyriat w ur -'orstand, are negotiating alone/
Tramsjorcie:,n and Iraq maintain a special
stand. re it ,-e:irlseible for us to resetin in
this reat'ier, c,n,1 confused. st-Ite, -4111e Israeli
is ean&fn, rd life; cementing its foundations
on the 1:.:-e31F.; of Amerlean?Soviet friendahip and on
constructive prinoiples of socialism ?ehicft, is
conoerned with work ,and the workers; vtieh raises
standArd of livin:: of the man?in?the?street;
.:thich makes the Jees, the ()bristle/is fnd the
equal in the eye of the law; anC
places the citizens on equal footing ree;ardlese
of relaL;lorts save or .ex as proolo.imed by Ben
auriont the rrovisional President of the Israeli
Republic?
*Indeed, is it perrd.seible for ua to remetn
rlisunited !tile the Jews are drily end hourly
beoomine; more stubborn and conceited?
ueretailet that the Jews are tobilielng their
forces to ooeupy Jerunalem deerite the UN
decision to turn it into an internetional zone
together r,Ith Bethlehem.
"If sister :?!eypt is angry at the trab states
bec:-,use they f.aled to help it ellen it vas
receiving the beastly Jewish R.ttp..aks alone ?
it ia rightly qngey ephouldn't It admit with
us thet its oontinued anger would be oostly to
ue the 1%rabs end would be fatal to the Arab Le Flu*,
"'rile responsible authorities in Lebanon rAn d
elsewhere must admit thrt they have been faulty
toertrts ;.:;gypt and that they must do their utmost
to s-tisfy it. Egypt has embraced. the Arab
1.0)-Elle since its inception until now. It has
of '.'ered Gro, ter 97)1rituel, moral and military
eacrifices for the Lelgue than any other Arab
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aglin tealtles the sub t- of the r 6 ? of
tnetee entgre 1/itt says:
wjhifro!..7. the bottom of our he-rte
tht the question of the Lebanese emlF:res
0111,1 not be raised on a sectarian balls.
Their eueivtiono in our opinion, ie riot
sectrian, but a purely Leb-Inese and nr,tional,
ge do not a* fsvore for Lebanon arti!
for ourselves. 'Nve demand a ripjit. If WO posrese
a rt, we demand this right fully. A.nd if re
do not por'ess any rift; we can irolte no demand.
Rat can we ,y the same thing about those who are
denying th,:, 7ligiose their right and who are refusing
to inolude them in the t,ebinese registers? Their
a-;;titude is inspired by fematicism only...re
ask them, ho is fanatioalt Is it he to is
demanding the application of lir, or he viho is
negleoting the lat32...
-:;01.11r1111 et aeeb ontributes the follo.4n,7rrtiol.
unt3er the title "`,Crte '3econd New Order":
"It looks n 3 though we are living in times
that are similar to the few years which preceded
the seoond world w.lr. The great, and most of the
snail powers, are no* picturing Russia and its
ne-kst order as despotic, dictatorial and tyrannical.
They are talking about persecuted libertiee. They
need only to talk about the concentration camps
and their horrors so that this campaign ag-inet
the Soviet vlorld f.';orT unit= would be similar to
the a patn which was launched ;5,,grinr-lt the
Geman i rid Nazi ere and its new order.
"The lancuage of horrors and persecutions is
again appering in propaganda and brodoects.
The trial of the Hungarian Cardinal is the
latest example of this new type of estern
propalutert,
"Thus, we find the 7;este.rn circle expanding before
it is concentrated on the new objective, / mean
the oorlet Union and the powers allied to it.
It is daily taking 4 new form which is greatly
shesed by the prest.:71, the movies and the bro?lc-nting
"It is the same play %hitch is being re?enacted
on the intern.ational political stage, but with
different: heroes and names..
wirne Soviet Union has inherited from the Reich
its minion for renovation in a manner "frileh is
different from th.,t of the Anglo?.1amns. 11q.rxiet
SociAism is replacing German National 3ocialism.
The new Copmunist order is taking the place of the
new German order, The West Is therefore feeling
the danger to its old and traditional order and
to its methods of exploitation. It is moving to
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the woad against It.
Thts1 tskiflF plaoe daily, if ob-erve the
tion' that e being formed and the nrop-randa.
athat la 'in spread in the 'world. -e are now ewe-
in years in1lar to those ?hinh preoemed T/unich.ft,
AMcglie,,D
a
f,
Tfty3e of thegrave dangers now threatening the
rsb countriesanM the relUetenee of the Arab leamers
tap unite in .er to ?amok?' the situation and to mai
Jerusalem* this paper eells upon the youths of the
ner generation to come to the fors se that they might
save what they could possibly save "of the scattered
ruins 9nd to introduee a new era in eadh Arab country."
In it ae ett RUWWAD states that if
th reoxn mnver2ente responsible authorities
ve anowi.ced, Ii not result in real reforms
eabracing all the -,7 ate's services, the reaotion
would be severe and mould encourage chaos and ,IIA
wthes to esk he Aret Governments, now that the
fore powers are hastening to recognize the
"Zionist bands" preliminary to their acceptanoe
a members in Uii
"liet preotinal and eineere steps they intend
taking in the event'Israeli' is accepted es
UN member? 'rill the %rab aovernments implement
their threat of ilthdrawing from UN as mon as
'Israeli' is ncoopted by that Organization? the
will they adjust themrelves to this event as they
have done in the pest? Thin cccetion is worthy of
consideration ana it merits a frank and sincere
answer. Is there any one to answer it?"
In commentine on toreirn deepatChes that the U.114
lovernment is willing to extend financial aseistanoe
to the Arab oountries When peace prevails in Palee;tino,
this paper declares
"ae do not oonsider this grant as an open 'bribe'
for bringing the ralestine question to an end
and for urej.ng the Arib states to recognize the
fait acoompli Indeed, we regard this ee an
earnest me-nure for resisting the vements that Aro
inimical to the democratic spirit erica, Britain
and Fr-nce are defenling against desott,
persecution and tyranny."
After pointing out tae objectives of the rriall elan
and the etrategio and economic importance of the Arab
countries, perticulerly of Lebanon end r'yria as natural
oil outlets* the paper writes in part,
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?The ter l the LI, 3 je stirui ting for
grantim7 finaneirl aid to ths Arab
countries is stAbijized pease in raleltinei
IN06, not believe this condition will sufficiently
guikrttee the proper expenditure of the fund's. .
The r.ale7eine problem will be shortly solved,
fo1le'7ring the efforts that are naw being mmde for
'recihing an acseptable settlement. Put the
fundamental Question is the absence of justioo and
liberty in this country. It is not pOssible to
undertake any oonP,tructional project, or to
spend any NO8 honest if the people do not
exercise their freedom,
pnper which highly prises Amir Jamil i3hetab
the Director neneral of Customs .phatto1ly de
,
press reports that he has submitted nig resignatio
to the Council of ItiniSters.
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.1.3e1RUT
rebrueey 1P, 1949
rleiloree the nlight of the Prlestinian refugees,
cells u-on the -Iraba to do their utmost to help
these refugees, :IA complrdn- thet the er b
=event-tents are not taking the neeee ry ife:Lerest
in. the -eelferf of ei es. people becaUse the Jorree
ere not 'et1nr tee,r, to return to their homes
-ttich ere being unjultly eepnerri ted by Tereeli.
editoriel then v'onders votether 11We le-ve
the refugee to r. derk ? nd unknown t te or ?eelcome
them anenguet us -tnd gent them the n'tionelity
of the country -here they ere taking ehelter, or
return them by force... The Concill tien "eimni ntor
h et-rted it mut, Itn ',embers prepoee to visit
the er-,b capitols tO herr the viwpointe of the Arab
etetes en the releel,ne problem of eilich the refugee
eue-tion is p -rt end Parcel. ---lhet solutions! le-ve
we prepered to re..0erit to this Commie-ion in connection
with the refueees? "
Columniet Dacraq warns the Arq.bs of the Jewish
des.ieme on jerueel.em and deole.res the,t "dependence
on the Concill,tion Commission is useleses Vie sae
in the it hoe Pernedotte reoomeendee thee the
Negeb be elven to the Arebs and t!:e nleo ce-e how
hi e reeoneend !len r.1 burid nd ho'j the leourity
eounoll maineelned silence toward Jewinh e).n.pansion
in Neiteb? Kin Abdullah hes promised to eareguerd
Arab rights in Jerusalem end. eleeebere "nether by
peece or by force, Zie will await the rief-aizetion
or this promioe and we hope the.t the fete of Jeruselaa
will be better then Met of Negeb end
Ywlle?uruerea, the Chief 1d1. tor of this paper, rrturnod
to lr.it yesterday efter an absence of seven weeks
abr.) d.
11?01011.1010001.0.11?14.0.4.09,
oontieuee its cerrpaim for the registr,etion of the
Lebanese emigre e Lebanese citizens,
nr sea 'eornie 7eee7in, the Director Generel of the
eenistry of ite.rieulture, for his efforts to improve
the ,.!e,7rioulture of Lebenon; e.nd. eppeelv. to the
Preeident enf the Council of "Inietere to study
the proposed arerioulturel projects before all the
other nrolects so that the country will ireerove its
indue- ry end commerce and wi.17 eornbt the unerioloynent
vhich i.s rife PM I% the youths.
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that cert An newspapers are reporting that
banon has spent thirteen tflion Lebanese Tounds
aheltort the Palestinian refugees, and says
s sum 1,3 hiplay exarxemted beoause Lebanon has
aper't :lore than three Ii Ion Lebanese Pounds
In thin respect. The paper then rtr.,:uee that the
Pale ins question dIoa not 'concern the Palestinians
only but the Lebf4nese people also bet:Nouse Lebanon
is direotly threatened by the Jo a -4ho hpve now
rovemli their Intentions, *Very Lebanese must
realize that mv.ch eacrifilie we offer on the altar
of this question is being !made for the defense of
our own existence.?
ITamI1le Shamunj in him oapeit Am
eutive Oommittee of the Jerusal
terday sent the f011owing telegram
C11.6berlain of the -oyol Court In Iraq
On behalf of the Arab Jerummaem Co. eremite
vhich w Ittended On January 31, l99 by the
people of the Holy City and its district,
p1e-se oonvey to :As Royal Highnesa Prinoe
Abdul-Tlah, the FeRent of Iraq, the 1ee,taion
of the Conference which calls for unity and
coil; borction and the holding of an exemption,
and urgent general Arab conferenoe for organizing
Arab oo-o,:nr-tion on ne", rInd sincere bflses and
for laying down plans for defending Jerusalem
and its atetrict and for resuming the genera/
etrw.71e for saving the 'hole of Palestine...*
AL..BaliA4
rman of the
nferense,
o the Wier
mAn-NitTnol ne-splper reported in ono of Ito recent
ievues that the operation of counting the inh,lbitants
of Lebanon has been completed ,,nd that the inhrbitants
-,re distributed according to the province as follows;
"Beirut
Mount Lebanon
Northern Lobs
southern *
The Bekaa
results, AO
19g 047
773
73
1. 7g
64
"Ynronites
3unnie
5ftias
Greek Orthodox
Druze
Armenirne
?reek Catholics
rrotestants
Syrians
Jews
ahaldeans
Latins
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CPYRG
Oa the ooealion ofthe return to Beirut from name
s wef=,Y. Director of the n(7.71riem
r1.0 eenner Dertment, this paper sweets
tee gteps the 0,evernment must take for luring visitors
to lebarlon. (A1-111e has been touring Europe with a
viee to studying wnys and mc,7,nr for improving the
tourist trAe in Lebanon), The paper 'rites in
this connections
'14fe have not abolilhed passports and visa teas.
have not overoome the currenoy
have not safsgurraed seourity in Lebanon -
the situation is still unsettled because of the
thefts thet are occupring daily and because
people are beige killed and moureled for no renaone
-e have not prOvided comfort to tboee wiehing to
vielt Lebenon because the great nur!ber of our
hotels do not possess modern facilitieet Tleetrinity
is weak. Water is scarce. The service is outmoded
end the fees are high and can net be Rfforeled by
the tourists or suer reeorters. How do you
expect the summer reason to succeed end Lebanon
to benefit rhile we are in this cond1tion7......
It is no hi.rh time for the government to trice
active interest in this invisible income, particularly
as this service has been taken over by a nen like
al-Rio ',those loyelty and sacrifiee for his duty
and for Lebanon ere tmechble."
This rep r reports that the Gree,k Charge 0 Affair's
yesterday visited the Prime Tfinicter and the Foreign
einieter and deelres in parts
Our represent2tIve writes that the discueeions
at the:7e teo reetings dealt, among other things, with
the Residence Treaty the Lebeneee and the Greek
Governments have decided to oonclude. The atiPite
d'Affaires vas given the final dr,ft of the trelty
,Atieh will be referred to the Council of Ministers
at the e rliest opportanity.
HAT
Kerala Rurueva etic has recently returned from a ceven-weelt
trip ebrond, during which he "covered four continents
by air", deolerve that the flint lesson he le7rned from
his trip oir that the time has come when we must
face the facts equerely and, close the ohepter of
confusion, Charlatenism and deception, Tet must go
back to the wire saying: 'God bless the men who knows
his limit end ntors at Ito . we must therefore stop
at our limit nfter having gone beyond the mark of pany
stages in our imagination. We are a small people, on this
clobee f';e possess only that others have neglected. We
are not a great, immortal And everlasting people. we
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64 not -1140a011 The peoplee 1viUztion. We do not
exPert-tentaus to tine world. le are neillor the
hit! 1y penietdiso Der the abode of inunortelity, If
e or our forb-rs soared to sublism heirfrits
their genlue, history balances its aecounts
non clay. It ne sures the pest with the ra*-.eure of
Vat present* We must ciastt forth the flan of twirls
trine the eyes or the people. we must rev.ove its
erre*** 1PrewA the minds of the teeming generation and
frau 'the 1-1?.: to of our youths. ne have overestimated.
Our imPoz*- ilee eat War oompetition rith and. &alai:Me-
te the 'thole of aosikini, either by stones eaten
by-Gime. olo-107 virtues extant in poetry and
e only. The h??istory of every people is like a
osely elmin. If one link falls apart for
one generation, the Wain chain will break and will
rt lost Indeed, we must beOn from rem so that
ray beeor,:, lamsthing and so that we may create a
ne,; eapl.tra. \th..i.okire could trade in the mA.rkets of
nations and powers,: This could be realized hard
tinric and elorifienIV and by abandoning easy
Otherwise, our shares Till remain unchanged: shares
of a bankrupt ?err -ny with nothing left of its *ciealth
but the paperai"
11A.V.AL
continues i sampaign in favor. of the Lehneae emigres
and demands that the Government:
"Register in the residenee books the emigre* who
have ohosen Lebanese nationality
"To grfait then tneiridentity cards
"To oount the numbi3r of the Leba.nece enigres,
particularly of their sons
"To enAot law, similar to that adopted by
Syria, ehich Till regard all eml.grestelt Lebanese
oriF:in at Lebanese citizens, vnether they wore
out ride of Lot Anon when the Lauzanne Treftty
WA, put into effeet or not, whether they chose to
acquire Lebanese nationality or not, tit ether
they immigrated before August 3.1, 1924 or after
August 30, 19211..
" demand that 'these measures be made into law*
0 qo do not R?.00ept any other. settlem6nt.
want our r.tlits, all our ri,tte or we n.nt nothing.*
Arilimeowormoolawiewrowe
is deeply- an ered by She sok' s recent ett. t en, ent that
there is no place for the Arabs in the Jemish state.
Me paper deelnres that were it not for
"the material and political help the United ltrttes
is liberally extending to the world Jewish movement
and to its *iibition in Palestine;
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ere it net fo te fact that the Western power
are narching ihn the prooession of the -'llericen policy
shieh is &nimble- 1 to Arab rights anei ?Rep. irStiOnfit
*Were it not fills the su7-17)ort the Zionists i,-tre receiving
riles 'C" n c7narters, ''7Tou1d have been illpossible for the
to se s-.:.17.111,6 their tLc,7ression, oriraes, havinIstiness
711 ortol they 7.-Du14 not have diotsted the
r1 .th--t to 441 3 :#1-41 a conqueror' s tone in direst ing
7c,8)004a1t; 3ctt1iriG the raioatina question. Is
The 1:,..1.per thsnlel-eoree the bue.Lliation from shish the
_
..airabs Lira becrtirs of the f1tratnity and
eVilviesiltteneCILff 1,0 th:', 1141et 14311:r!.7., vitirt the Arab
s 17?1 11,--.17,a to E?:..i?y in aner to the insolonee of
et.t.1:-ff-it.L.143. of the United 1tatel,,T3ritain And Irranoe?
-i ta't n of the A"ab rogs stsd .resittlents be
t.c.zinuir.?-nt of oil esateession3s trettties atset agreements
mfers.citic b, ririf; of rob`(.,.:irsnd
crininals, uet,11 a United Uto.'see, rit&iz nd their
Western folIo':ers stop harboring enett, d4ception nd
*aired
..o,ozteist ?rSaartli" makes the following, ooronte on
-indszentyl s cases
"The '::estern nee powers have risen to denou.nee
the sent enoe lhish tuts been pa ed on Cardinal
nndszenty? They have filled the sky with agitntion,
protests and tears in condemnation of thie aotion
which viols ter; juitioe and humanity*Britain,
the United Ztate, France, itray, Delgiun et al
re in the tanguLrd of the poy:era protesting
in the nme of human:Ay against this unjust sentence!
"!re stens, e-,s *e the', Cs rd.inal trindszente s fate
regardless of his high religious office -
ine:c-ite more eulogy and f:orrow thr,cx the fate of an
,nLire people,
"Ionit the tragedy of the Arabs of PrIentine in the
eye- of the United Stater, Lritain, Frz...nos and the
rest of the eStern polscre th:t have ensouraged the
gange of robbers c.net criminals to oorsuit reassmaree
in Deir Yaaint hs.zareth, Jerusalem, Tiberias, Haifa,
Akka and Jr,ffs, and then recosnized them end embraced
them 'with all the eympathy and support in their
power, a human tragedy Yinioh merits as much
attention as that of Cardinal Itindlzentyt
oUndoubtedly, the tsars the Weill:ern Slocl is
now isked,ling on the fate of Cardinal Min,d_szenty
are crocodile tears in the name of humanit
Translator's note: It will be observed that Arri.SHAM,
does not mention or even hint at
Tiuseia in the above elurmEtriZeil articles.
"4. few dills am it dentsribed !Asstikfa
al- Arts, the no LOrious commis et, as a
Lebanese nationalist sto has rendered
great services to his country.
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b/sEAall
write, that the Pres- and Propreereek torate
has feerinded the ateepapers of the provisions of
Article 14 of the n,:a pees? Law, namely, that each
'tion must, before *arch 9, 1949, deposit a
.eCada ',AU') the etate's Treasurer. This bond
L. 3:-. 101 each political newspaeer Led 500
t;-cit?i iiterry or sports publi ce7.. tiose litese
eeeCe replace the old bonds ',yid& die not exceed
L.. for,7 pelitieal newepxperte The weekly,
eciu tio nal puello..Itione were
clue reoe .this bond. The persecutor. of the press.
are not setisfiett,with Uie imposition of these shackling
boxida. They demahd, throueh their new sdestructive
Organization that they be retroepeotive. This is AA
Ilitprecteelented 1nnoveelon in the enforoement of reform
oeganizatiorea lews.0 The paper then severely
.teao...k:o this meneure and galls upon tb e Lebanese publishers
to ele.ht it even to the extent of eileeerling the
puel.loetion of all their neespepers.
TigeACereeli
In con. exiting or, Tram 'Jordan aoeeptenoit to tek part
in the Tthoden negoti-tions with the Jeer, this
paper
declares "this speedy compliance with the Verlin.
requezt. .. will weaken, Transjordeinl s potion as well
eel the peition of the other Arab couetries. It will
strenethen the hanee of the Jews in the taming negotia
end %All teem to obtain more f-vorable terms
end a loneer truce then they expeoted to get." The
paper then urges the Arabs to do their utmost tte
preserve the Chrttlari and Arab character of Jerusalem
and eeys that if they can not do SO. they should demarid
that it be placed under an inteenationetl trusteeship
rather then lee it fall in the hands of the Zionists..."
,eek
In ref errine to the reoent attempt on the life of the
Shah of Iren, this paper's political editor reviews
the rivalries of the great ro,7ers over Leen end reeches
the conTlesion:
It appear that the ieA seism plan for encircling
the eldele %eet with the Ceemmunist pincers from
the Far 7-i:w-t; and riven Iran is in the courne of
execution. 1:4;) the five -eullete ehich have been
fired At the Rile/1 of Iran oonstitute the first vshosts
at tho Neeele East?" This le believed to be so by
politol observers, since clortruniem ir inc-eleing
in the Pidele La7t thanks to the ore-tion of the
Iraelletete in Palestine e this (Ante '441.1 be
communist nest in the gest."
7nis eeeitly weites the following ap eerlinal
eendszente s trial,
"The let4tern eorld-hem 'been roused this week beeauee
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"3,et-Q o e be deoeivido aft
'eltern wneld Oalvs for
nks of defending- re114en and.
.cfr 4tic t3tude ',mad took
de. n theiLYy Lando
of hrtzt txgty ilf,
it nus
arta in
dezenty,
oonunuast
-roi,-;.? are 3.
zeal for Ja.
nItteti.t the It..?
of pitteeto
at ans for -affAng
fl nr., the Christians, ?hue, angry
rotated on all siden silloutiRe their
t have "en 1fl3U8t t4 the
fli4ating *emu Aim. But th
this is 1-7hAtt tn,:;. Western
- is the we-,-icest
in *orb-at/71re, comuni
racwas k?;-,c-i,-,-Tri
afore the -s.:,Istern imrld and the Nosiell
,ew
t eRtrn p3iy is the mother of lair:tette.
ere.,711 e of r-71.14on here to
*Ploit tilo difficulties of OE prier-t there
want to know the views of the priest on tkle
trail'ar3 or axis; just Lk t The world hat heprd
hit; vie.: on nommunisz:
in an article 4net by fr,
with ITever. thaufet
the po7ors of to Maronilie P
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A}FdICAN LGA,,
?
?:::P-t the Arlb countries ere going
to orr-c::- n;,:,?..y and:not jointly, which ituation
01.--1C2)1 -ly rx)ntrtbuting to the erroganee of the
47(..
fl they ere olane tee?, worlf& in the grip
ht hanrm, this paper deolares in part
CPYRG
?17,e_:ypt ei,ting alone iehile eransjordan
le e,eing to Rhodes 41 by itself. The turn of
Lebanon, Iraq and 3yria will come tomorrow. I
do not knew eenet.b.er eieudi Arabia and Yemen are
actually concerned with Palestine, since they
hove no armies in that nountry !,7nd since their
orderc.,.. 60 not adjoin those of 'the Israeli State/
"In rioting this '4,)irit of abarentnent among the
:,,rele states, in regretting to see the sticks
of the erab leinele breaking one after another on
the rocas of ",'hodes, we again appe;72 to the Arab
steles in t-11 name of manliness ane Arabian once
tore to come together ar.v7, to forget their
differences and toet,ce reelity v71th. courage s.red
deteemieetion. They will thus overcome this
evil ae eruoh as pos-Ablf.s? confine it to a narrow
eree and then face the Conciliation Commission as
one man tic thet ,they may have the opportunity of
7,toppin0; the :7:1-0,Ah of the cancer by diplomatic
methods, end of rreparing themselves thereafter
for the cervine, op ere ti e .6:1.0i1a be done by
spreeding literecy among the Arabs, so that not
a ,7,1,131e le0ii!1. will re ein illiterate; by
emancipation end liberetion, so th.FJ.,t ,vomen would
not continue toe paraly7ed; by dispelling the
illufAons under,,we have 1,31:torea for generations
and generations; by militery service to be imposed
on every t\reb, from eh eomen Woull not be excluded;
by ort3e,ni zing, new firtnno1 ,13. systems, throudit ethic%
rociel justice mould be promoterl no that neither
dare poverty leer extravagent richness would rem,in,
and o th-t thcr wollia T:0 t be feudel lord's to evloit
theueen.de upon thousands of mall peasants, and
inditstrielists to hold. in their hende the fate of
thou ie upon theueende of workers.?
AL,-
Again eeels ere th the sute)ect of the Lobeneee emigres
and writes in ee ets
"It is not the emigres' indifferenee to Lebanon
that is i-r vmt. n their registeation.' These
migree heve leeed Jena heve served Lebanon. They
hp,vo cervid the :rah Avr,r1k5 h :.fleir capacity.
They ere a reetchless strength for Lebanon and for
the Arab states. They (Ilene are the effective
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moral force. PanaticJ..nns, and acquiescence with .
these responsi...blo for this frInaticiszi, are preventing
the regitsreti..(7.m of ths
raile we have !-:r7:oe,ci.led to our lereril.i ,s/ho have
(icrAtied. neI, to hr us, we monr.i.er '71.3.y the .4r13
- t',;h el:..res have serv.,7,(7. their ouse
rum rt th? .nhavior
if the trc. Ihettl
JO .17, a.17.74T one- side7
tafe '2111 f Zdi to r of thi paper,7.rx?I t es
flrv,tti 1rce his ?lifficu.lties started rtith
of his of certain
pioLc belt eVe' to bve c3f2fi el, the Press
Law, tL th L n0P. f;::. press r.,T tt. 1010 is responsible
for it prE.,sent unviable po ion. Te i so Kbecl.use
the ? pr: 3 hr. i. lied to .? :licence.':11.1r1ng
he, or ugh lists. the.
in ,r,tur, fie nd(ler en. tion9;
Vri th their lot; ancl. Ir.rce att endn,noe on
rr-
$
ALIO. AR BAIR
11::::":7rfpor lout-1.1c...n..er3i er:orte to
*doh it fl..!,.scribele
c 44 de frf?'.47...,7! Of the rrryssflti
turns int() on incynee burner for the
Covert t, if It wp,nt.1 Lvoid iLTriconnent r,.nd
evr criticizez An,c;10-9F.Lxorp:..1, 1-...?.)lds them
respontlible for lent dffi cultio:7 of ell.
the A.r..:tb sttes sprvpos r:Torts concerning
the oonclion of Arab- Anglo-Llaron alliances:
nThe e7;torminqtion cf Ismtmli is the 'principal
condition fo the Iat ti ation of n eoti ations
for the conclusion by the Arabs of alliances
"lith the 'iestern 17,1oc."
In a .7.!?rr,:c.) nd article this paper 7rith grea.t
emph si s that the Aio-xons are, first and foremost
responsi7)1.e the calani. ty of Pi tine :r.r.e." for the
U. uffi r.i.n.7s of one liliori P,-.7.1estinian
Arabs'
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co p ains of Je-ish intra.nsigienee ,n'' Arab
di suni ty ,-,nd declares in part:
"stiat prev_nts a man like Iliadh ae-solh from
visiting the Are,b countries to dismiss the present
and the future with his colleagues for os-ordinating
krab plans im this crisis, so that 71) mitt,t merge
from the clamorous impasse into vehich WO haws
hurled ourselves and reconstruct the Arab League
on new bases? The trips that are now being
is.z=de by unof flcial Arab leaders do not iNalr
remedy the disintegration from which we are
suffering. Premier as.-Selh must therefore ride
the air and meet his responsible eolleagues in
zal the Arab countries with the hope of reaching
the solutions that are impatiently awaited by the
Arabs a3.1 their eountriee."
CPYRG
_AL-HAUT
In continuing its campaign for politieal realism in
the A ab world, this paper writes on the *cession of
the carnolusion of the Tranoo- yrian 7onetary Ageessnent:
"However we try in Beirut and Damascus to interPret
the Lebanese and Ole Syrian monetary agreements,
48 liquidation settlement and monetary independence'
the facts speak differently and prove that we have
been obliged to conelude them because of our
failure to saferuard our currencies ourselves no
more, no less? 'Nhy should we therefore deeeftveg
ourselves and our peoples with lies?
l'ITe must, tioularly the responsible authorities,
organise ?I'bUdgett of our present potentialities
and oapabilities. They must make them known to the
people eithout gilded expressions. They have
surfeited the people with promises until litagina.tion
has replaced reality' in their thinking. How do
you expeot a people whose thinking bre besn so
corrupted to improve themselves and to sawe oth-r
"We said yesterday that we are atiortly heading toward
new surprises. if we faoe these surprises with
the mentality which has verned, our behavior
as government and people toward Palestine, then
tell us goodbye."
AL.4 1AL
continues its eerie* of articles on the Lebanese
and says kat the beginning of its editorial*
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me thou0ht like others about the emigres
eticn, if we were moved in our insistence
their registration and reoognition of their
s by sectatian fanaticism and by a desire
to laereaae the rights of a speolfio Lebanese
grew w would net have permitted ourselves to
end this meek, which AL-1AM has devoted to
the emigres, with an appeal to His Exeelltn0Y
the President of the Republic. We realist
that this Ippeal migjat be a persistence whieh
we do not like, but Which springs from toleration
and not from fanaticims and from love and sot from
hatred. We rally appreciate the delicate position
in whi eh tho 'high umpire' will find himself
to arti,rate an issue Which some of its opponents
regard as sectarian.
wWe Ash we ootad have addressed the appeal to
others. We wish we could have asked a responsible
person for a fair decision in the country*. interest.
But we are also obliged to seek the high umpire
for the correct judgment.*
writes that it is criminal on the part of certain
elements in Lebanon to regard the emigres question
as a seetprian Jew*.
This paper reports the followingl
has been forwarded to the Iraqi- Legation
signed by more than 500 persons, Oho
eating against the re?trial of those Iraqis
miao were rewiouely tried under the charge of
having instigated and disturbed public opinion
and created pltticnl upheavals. The alt7ners
denounce the Portsmouth treaty, salute the
gallant Iraqi P le and demand that the trials
should not be h again and that the detained
Iraqis Should be released so that they may resume
their strug,le agrAnst imperialism.?
demands that the ',rat, Governments enlighten their
peoples about the development of the Palestine question.
It wonders in a second editorial how the Lebanese
people can tolerate the occupation or their villages
by Jews When t,ey, were ?ble to fight the foreigner
between 3$k3 and l96 and drive him out of the country
by force.,
II IH
reports that when the French steamer Providence arrived
in Beirut on February 14, the Surete i7reneral officials
were on the look out for a number of her crew ',who
have been suspeeted of selling forged currency in
Beirut.. The paper then goes on to say that these
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ft) of the foregoing oh p
g a earn If 40)(5 forged leeriest%
S podist. ihO gilmiletaa admitted,
nterrogatod. that he 'bought these
La Marseilles in order to exehango
/atestleallons axe under "MY
n orler t idmtify George
d to arrest *hi renal.
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ri 1,
chn
writc a that it wee not surprised *en Rritain
xtended a de, !sato reoegnition to the Israeli
state, because the Arabs and the world were
expeoting ouch reoognitjen despite the snbirmity
r>ttich has oixemnoterised tritain' e imeitcy on
Prl,-:-.Aine since 19174 The oditorial feels That
oould not have den. otherwlee in view
or ho pressure which has Wen brouleht to bear upon
him by the opposition and loy -the majority of the
Labor party, Thus, it ceittiitues, "we rind ourselves
abandoned by all our frier*" and enemies and we find
the Americans, the British, the Frenoh -nd the RUssi.ane
on one plane in rseognizing the Israeli stat% wit
ourselves are f, eine' the Israeli state Q.13 a living
rerlity n a tanelile telt. jl we continue to
call it the tfictitious* state, We are riot among
those w-n4 shrink fro',11 roatinC reality, however bitter
it may be,..,,"'oday, -i7e confront a mighty eness7.
7:emust., facing, this enemy, be fully rrepared
PhYaleallY, mentally, spiritually, socially,
economical/7 and politioally, Do the Arabs understend
this, r;hey must begin to think id.th a EUropean mind
aM with an Arab eplirit, so that *en the hoist" of
salvation strikes, '''"6 would not be unprepared" Weak
and demerit*"
qa,?:11AIA:r
r"olurnist Daooae is disappointed with the
reeomition by he foreign powers of the Israeli
state, reproaches the Arab rrovsrnmenta for their
timidity and dinunity, and declares in pArt
"The present ocale for a lot of thinking
and for future -reparedneS 30 The 1707' a
will not stop at the limits of their Israeli,
in view of what we are ,now hearing from then,
TU !mein- the Arab Govern- onto surrendering
to at the Jewish efforts have been realizing
with the aid of the great power's, we saY once
rnoret
*Bev/pre of other calamities, Beware
ofsurrender,. The whole cause has not
been boat with the los.7 of Palestine,"
4L.s.A,A1.4
cwellrj in it editorial on the subject of trep tie with
foreicn po aria reaches the oonoltieion that although
no country can rernain neutral in time or ,74try it
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muld be be
to any Omar
oblifiT it tx
b*nn not to bind itse
tad now Or later
bases.
ts roundup rf *he l.sa3 psitle
rkTorts that it "under tend* that tb
ovc.riusent has received a ta
as-3aidt the lraqi Premier, it
to arrive in Beirut An the middle
sit will be regarded as the last ehaptar in the
ries of contacts whit* were reoently made by
ta-mionali and asliadfait fbr paving the way to the
implementation of the new. Iraqi pelley, namely, the
conclusion of inlUtary treaules among the Arab League
states and strength ng the League *Lich is on the
verge of 0613-apse, torts are being smete. eoaeriing
to reports, for arr ng a meeting been the Arab
kings and prosidonta remeIro the Edsting aleUnderetandi
itlid to find new ba.ses for oo..epergtien among the Arab
ooun trieet 1
oene? A
Leb- nose
Hurl rpsha
he expects
morth. Hie
rem that While it ha. en esible for
Arab peoples to he14 the responsible authorities
ootuttnble for handing over Pjsstine to the Jews,
would it be impossible to 410,014goto those ehe
have molleeted funds in the name rof Palestine?
editorial which prpposes :atriet auditing of the
accounts of the various national it)itTel,, dent/one
*deb have been created to oolleot funds for
Palestine, then ._?:ces on to says
?" e are putting this questio
of the political and millta
Palestine question in the w
and on the ooeasion of the A
aetion to reach a final sett eraent with the
Jews along the plans formulated by Britain and
the UnitedOtates."
on the ow:Lydon
nettlement et' the
known manna
flovernment
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quote7 the Lamb ES et December 19 as saying
that the Arabs 111$0it follow One of the
two ilternativtitd rhey sseet either ?Pet
doorf to Western oivilisation and modern idias
OX' isolate illkonnelves end step where thy/ are. The
?re-i,ah stpte whit* has suddently in the
Near float is not 147 ouPerloa? in
but tam in 41/0.110 exactitude, in &teoip1X*
and in faith 'hi birr., in their heart* The edi*ri
decl-tres that the, analysis of the Arab dtuti
IS one hundred pUjent oorreet? It therefore trees
the Arab rulers ye read edmeation among their-,
peeplec in order to Prove tip the worill that the Art#1
is askless distil/dined than the Vuropean
ii s propertily nurtured on scientific method,
paper reports that the reprsentttye of the
edor yesteyday invited 74bawn * Join the
lode negotiationni and that Foreigp litaister Fran.)
Mooted the Arca" diotplomatio representatives in
40*mA and notified them of this invitation in
or4erto obtain their governments, viewpoints
ofl the subjeot, /t is expeoted that the Lebon*".
rveet will receive the Arab gevcreusente,
within the next twenty four heuris
nuing its ',evert retaliaterf
the viet Union in a gignatin-
is teitting the attention et the
the, 1,Atropeon Union Couned
Plan and the North Atlantic ULazi
b.mb is now emerging as 'buttrees
thase organized !fetters drivesi To
e florist Union and t? revenge the
Mie a bomb has merged today in the time
of a report, the most significant point or vhieh
is the statement that WI atomic organizations
in the United States will in future *WAY' the
itsericon armed forces with a new type of atomic
bombs stronger than that used against the JaPeneee
in ifireshla-and Nagasaki and tested in Bikini.
Truly, this is nether method et terrorising the
3oviet Union of osoroing it to rote the siege
of eerlin and of guessing its foreign po1loy.
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s ?
"The Unitd States has finally dee ded to
demonsLr.to its power ii tie military and
#0.0"omic fie' rts regmrdine the
olow atomic bomb t thi a deeltonnen
and. eonstitute
whioh the United.Stitea is building its
porer, Truman regards thi e se the
doctrine of the present ages Force alone Will
discourage any power teptiL to indulge in
ggreesien.
"Truman advooated this doctrinemop,
Ye"6
5.?O,Turkeys Wes the first Country to be ort
fruit this doctrine by strengthening its anihr
visimewtris the Soviet Union and ite *mends, This
doctrine continued to spread in other parts of the
l'orla until it now embrloes about two thirds of
the globs.
e must reird Stalin's last efforts for p.*es
and qttempte to soothe the American nerves in
the light of these tots, we must therefor*
wait to see !h.tL.r this siagsnt will eiieceed
or will double rice's camp gm. The seeend
is the likely pe ibility.?
aeserto that the Lebanese people can no longer
be deceived by the present Goverment which is
calling the present dellartmental re?organization
measures as the de sired reforms, Ouch reforms mere
introduced seven months ago, but without any result,
the ppper oomoisins,, ticrlever, it argues that "Le
Will not eee the dettred reforms so long ms those
Itho are boasting *Wet them de not aim at reforming
the principles before ell else, and at reforming the
mentality with which they handle the country's affairs,
AL.,I rrin AI) AL- WBNMI
which wants to see treng
askel m4here is the Arab Le
to it? 'There is its potitica
it not meeting?"
Ited Arab ea**
Alat hes God clone
ittee and why Is
again demands the asp on of the Chamber of
Deputies because of its
desuk.cnde if the people.
WAD
lure to realize the
refers in its editorial to the oatlouaness ith
which 5talint a recent sVtement has been reiseivell.
in the West and mites the following committal
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nating the int
of eonttilenee in 1ntezia
*0040 in We email
take ons t
it ? being
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necessi
countri
zind teibm
the Jewish
continues
of articles regarding
flg tion in the Arab
'uld adopt Wester* ideas
der to be able * withstand
This rens.issanoe, the paper
must be by Lebanon and Mgypt, th
twO dirteleMd ountiies that hate epena
their eyes to Western civilisation and
their doors to progressive Ourrentm? The
outlines or this reno,ssano? must be drawn
by the Arab Slam* vibloh we milk to base on
new foundatielta, se that it will become a
useful instrument for imposing Its will,
implementing its decisions sad ee?ordiaating
its policy in all the Arab countries at the
sane tin44...,One man in %Okay was able
eradicate illiters.07 in a few rurs ' the 1*
Ai:atm./4 Isn't Lexta leader sx:ongst
woad fellow in iig1epso that We woul
long, march along the right
AL-HAYAT
Editor
goal ktu the Chi Vet this paper writes the
following esti which is tra*4ate in fall
*Toward the end Of the last ware an Arab
asked a high British officials why do you
hold on to these reaotionary personalitie
in the Arab world? Your word is now thoontestoeco
in all the Aretb countries and you ean hand over
the administration to a new generat.ton shish
thinks in the mentality of its *go.' The Britisher
smiled and replied: 'The personalities of whom
you Complain are the bulwa* of our pollOY. W*
art ooncerned mith our .fand not your interests,'
Whether this Britisher was serious or joining
stvether his words expressed a personal or IL
thigh policy' view, his answer ptoturce the
situation prevailini?: in the Arab tetuttries, I
therefore address my p.rtiole to those youths /du)
are dissatisfied with the trend of events, as
well as to all the peoples, beeause it oontains
a ray of light Mach shatters some of the: illusion&
It Is obvious tht reaction in Its fullest acne*
lurks behind the political thought* of those
dirooting the governments in most of the Arab
states. The Palestine oallosity has revealed
the hicidsn facie and hke given the Arabs a cruel
lesson, Nays the youths ever thouritt of Its
fundamental 0101.110
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"me you
saw M.
heroes
he,.demerd
the law, MO*
Hair* we
hnve pome?
them?
holAMPAF mita "
life nd
They saw
heroestor wl-nment?
h laurels and titles fle01Inig
meditatedien the taste rcasen
Frost where this high titles
ented them? ilthe oonfilmed
? who gLtpDlied their
e until ey reigned
settiod darn?
"The Arab peoples
moat of the Arab
permit them to
Thus, we see
,-*re based on
prxtples and o
soaps.
era ted 114,
e 44401 u1d
ir say era the matt
of the ng V4Itions
at are unrelated to the
at axe outside the Arab
/Meted ray r
revjew its 1.
and you vd./1
aka eathArb state a
since the first - world way
definite answer."
n commenting on Transjorean's
nepotists with the Jere, columnist Bassil Bangui
declares in parte
IfTransjordan officially announoed its aeeeletknee
of Bum:he's invitation for pence negotiations
only twenty four hours after the United Slabs
recognised that osuntrY. We can now prehiblY
realise some of the reasons nhich prmvented
Transjordan from taking part in negotiation*
broader than the looml military negotiations in
the Jerusalem area. Indeed, l`ransjordease 0
aneeptance has a deeper significance
7Vashington and London aro agreed on th
of settling the Palestine question*"
refers in its edit rial to the meeting e no
publisher's held on February 1 at the Phalange*
headquarters in Beirut for studying the present
Press Law and declares that this Law rust be abolished
"because it is despotie....ahd dictatorial."
This paper reports that For ign aster Hied
yesterthty reeeived in his +sham:tory lgoswell,
Minister; and lir. Pinkerton, the U. 3. Minister.
comments, "Undoubtedly, the disouseions oovered the
Rhodes negotiation* and Lebanon's particioation there
Wo understand, in this conneotion, that tile Britinh
and the 1.1,14 anisters case to notify the Lebanese
Gov,-remeent that their Governments will -welcome the
delegation of Lebanese officials to rthodss to take part
in the current negotln,tions for the oonclusion of a
permanent and stioe. "
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eltrries a *umber Artielos o of
thi
prc. se in on th .aad.fl ef the meeting
the ne.qapaper inablieherff-liad at We Angles.
eadqun.rters Ifebrr17 1, during Wash they sulked
his Government to revise the present Press Law.
a tram?: and iMepeMflt Judi
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.113,JF T
-he
tolled
eelitorial
i" /All tran olat this paper 'e
9 etate Budgets
"3eventy two million fend six hundred thousand
!ebanest Poundal
LIS in the 7neeo Republic 4 1949 bu4yt!s.t
lo t know **the n
there are, behind es
ther btogats and additional approplifiationsJ
=.1x milli n five hundred RM fifty san4
Lebanese Poundsl
"This was tn.e LebriesivR ubliol a 1939 Budget, hnmely
the budget jumpod twelve fold in ten years, 04 Clod,
bless and inoreaseJ
"TUe tic ire of the direct taxes and dues regi ctersd
11312,000 L.P. in 1939. Today, they lister
14,400,000 L.P. nasely, 11 fold. This p eases and
gratifies us because the direct taxes toudh the
wealthy ,nd the well-to-do.
The firmres of the indirect txe nd due
1939 registered 3,513,000 L.P. namely, about three
fold the direct Voce and dues collected at that
time. These fieures are registering 45,d50,000
L,F.. this year, namely, thirteen tisnei3 more thait
1939. This grieves end dietresses us, because e
it is the poor Lebanese tax-payer Who is contributing
this great share to the indirect taxes,
The 1939 expenditures of the Presidency eteriod
22,425 La. Today, they are registering 3,053
L.P., :may, 18 fold or more, Moreover,the
Charaber of Deputies cost Lebanon l20,534 p.
ten years aeo, hats year it is costing Us 1+92,2117
L.P. rarely, four fold.
If we exleine the 1939 appropritione for the
Council of Itinisteri we find they were estimeted
at 31,711.7 L.P. but if we read this year's figures
for this eatabliment, we find that they are
estimate. at 2141,369? approximately fold.
"The Fourth Chapter of the 1939 budgets_ entitled
Secret eapenditteres, raa estimated_ at 6,000 L.P.
The 1949 13udget abolishes this Chapter. rut we find
the secret expenditures distributed: here registering,
contrary to deeocratio traditions, 200,000 L.P. in
section 6, page 6, of The Tresidency Chrpter with
which are mixed expenditures called Protooal
Ee7"endittu?ee; and there registering* 20.,000
secrat expenditures in seotion 6; Chapter 6
of the itiinietr for Foreign Affeirs, page 59 of
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we -am the fl,mrea r11otte4 for clovelovicott
jeets not ey.ceeding 17,0(10,000 L.P. The.
mice of the bu.4.geto rii-Jout three-quarters
$ %teed up for salaries end for seourity, anly
and other e:Tenditures. A1thou41 these exponat weso
are useful, 'laity are exaggerated beceuee of tit0
big allay o offioials ;those number could be venni
redue
AL.
"We have imor saying for the last seve
that our bulge* is like a payroll Which gets
er every :year not because of the aurrelmoy
inflation afoR its attendant hardships, but boo#uee
we have not be our budget, on sound financial
and eeonomie principles vthieh will turn it into a
budget teeming with:mseful development projeots.'
For expmple? the budget of Egypt Whioh eamplainew'
like ourselves, of currenoy inflation, has net
increased during the last ten years more than
2 1/2 fold, While it maintains an arny fin times
1 rger than ours.
ivlst oe pciute out that the 1939 pueigt cUd not
include the Oletmon Interests revenues, thi.oh are
estimated at 16,000,000 L.P. this year.
?A new state, Israeli, has been created along our
frontier*. It eonstitutes a gmve danger to Our,
exiatence4 ia4j we continue our antiquated
methods or pose to uproot them in order to build
our Republiel s finances And political eoohomy on
foundations of knorledge, study, resovroh, analysis
and speciaNizatient
The dectsion rests vith the authorit es. .11; budget
v?hilah jump)* from 6,5,1%1,000 L.P. to 72,600,900 and
tore - beomuee there are independent budgets net,
ineluded in the general budget , in ten years *lot
ovuse us all to ponder and to ponder long.
'Indeed, ee know that ve hav::, Shifted from mandate
to independence and that independence is oostly.
'eut this independenee, Which is dear to our hearts
is threatened pith collapse if we continue this
rotten method, and if we do not properly
everything by speoialists and educated men,ithomg.
plentiful in Lebanon and in the Weetern woztd if we
need them. n
ulna et edi DOUR vitei that 'Acheson' areply
twntshasb n severe. It contain*
one clear eterenoe, mztely, that the Unitcd States
not pr ared to necptiate with the Ooviets before
they lift the aLege of Weetern Berlin." rAfter
revie,eing Amerlomn negoA.Atione with AUBAA re Berlin
and the epeetaoular success of the airlift, Daqqaq
deelares1
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be that Stalin is sine
Or ne ttione. 'Out the
Vition ate not pleastm
711:6a
%V95 1St year, for example,
eloome them.' Today, the Westerne ha Es made
f.Treat strides, fellowing Russia's rnflninl to lift
the siege of ir3.tn, toward.realizilg their apal,
They are no Milling to retreat or least to, hilt
r,..1; the etage 1,.y have rire ?evened in
regress.
The teoond rint OAUSOSthe et to be
severe and to Nontinuc Its mill tary iitd**anomie
plans and to neglect Stalin's jnvittiOfl, IS
tile great eved-whidl h?,.s turne the political
and mi1it4ry situation upside do In in MOTU'
at; and Asia in a smnner which ft., not reftervire
the United States about the results of this change,
I moan the fall of Onina in Communiethalmis? ThiS
is oontrfAted by the stabilized situation for tke
)sterners in tjne Middle East And their aomple4,.
ontrel of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean'.
In view of thit it is d1ffiu1t for ut to expect
any success for he last oVint of the Rusolan
bean It has co* late, just an bears ordinarily
came late."
This paper beak LZ JOUR ;3 propozi.
establish a see ticn at the rigri
Zionist aotivities in the polities.'
social and r,grioultural fields.
t the logrern ents
ce for observing'
milit-ry, soonomte.
I tV PAL
refers in its elt.oz'il tc. the rorttp sed
federatign of the Fertile x'ec nt count ri in
whldh the Marwilte PatriAr0h i31ven a P03 tioh
as member of its :leginey c.kmuell, and deolaree
that Lebanon is erphatI sally against being invOrvod
ot to re-itertite that the Phalanges haVe eloasion
in any such scheme. The torial takes
s old
the vtew that 41,e1:ianer, la for the LerbLnece ess
of the religious eaanunities of whieh it is ocriprised.
The Phalanges do not believe in the Ij7cm of Ian
Lebanon booaul,m this 1.4e breeds divnitY. ThAl
editorila teen wonaere "who has told them that the
Moslems, the Druzes, And the other Christian elements
in Lebanon are less attaahed to Lebanon than She
here is net a single Lebanese
who is ready to give up thie indapendenee and this
sovereignty. 1, it eiLt 1; 0 ri fa then ba LIICS e aseeernment
to enlighten the public) on this projeat and tells the
Lebnere psopiel
440 abeolutely refuse to introftee oly change
into the td,tus- of our nationa existonee: Leb3n00
Is an independent and sevorelpA stf4.te. It must
rem lin as an independent and seventgn state.
Lebanon is independent of the it and the Vast.
It must rimmain independent of the ERst and the Vest..
Therefore, Lebanon refugee to join the proJeOt
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hl-liar; for reasons kno?vn to our r,
aq it I.a izoil1, ur,tr ;Is:,
rawn t: %need', for r n T-Trkini, the
1 r.;1' :PAU te3rt to cent ri t e ecri1i to
e paper eleatinz with r:atters of the moments
the e4itcrt.71. it if have damned it adrl,s-,b1c:
to reproduce in this space a sel,.:ction of
9,rt1olos written by the foune?r of this paper
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i1ngibtioe in it e
n complaird.rt f
the activiti
rite; in part:
rThe Ara s havc the riclit to 1, cr.t
s ctivitier of the torelcn polloy intendsc
to chain then to tre,,, ti es And c11Iflcs
with the powers that hp.ve embraced the Zioniete
reco:Itized their, Dov?rnment in Pelestine,
th suieiocd ce.utious or's, '111- slap
v( the 11-0":1; to7deratne thr 12.e r3D governmen
unveil all the secret maneuvers that are bein
manipulated beh.inti ttte seen* under the prete
Of saving r stine., ? "
non surmusIding
Arab vrriti, th.a paper
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Ap,71Cti", 13,TIRtri
CPYRG
February S, 3.949
'evote s its editorial to the subject of treetiee with
the !ret oral declaress
"You eant Lebanon to main noutr:i and to
refr-in from ooneluding treaties with any
r rtyi whether with the Bast or with the west.
"This is a, be7;lutiful dream Ighioh we hope could
be realized, But Inhere is the desired neutrality
rfrille we in Lebanon, syria, Iraq, Transjordan and
'?riudi Arabia have signed oil agreements with
Aaerica, E'ritain :-?nd France: Pipelinee have
been oonstructed thispugAout the length and breadth
of our territories. nil refineries hole been.
erected in Tripoli and will in future be ineteled
in Danias and between Tyre and Mallon. Oil, as
is known to is one of the nerves of war. Indeed,
it is the axis around which Wars revolve in this
age, Uow do you expect us to remain neutral While
we have hurled ourselves, by signing the oil
agreements, into the furnaoe of this oil and while
the ,%reb countries, headed by Lebanon, will be _
in the front line of fire in the event of the
outbreak of war?
"Lebanon is the first arab state latch signed
the Tap line agreement eith the Americans. It
is the first state which remitted the Trend'
to oonstrOot a refinery in Tripoli and eoeepted
to oonclude agreenents with British oil oompenies.
This rIclanG that Lebanon has allowed these powers,
if war should bre:sk out bemoreve, to defend the
refineries and the ripelines and to gu-Lrd them
strongly. How could es reconcile our conclusion
of oil atreenents - we were realists when lire
el -neri then - with our refusal to conclude treaties
with the powers? 'Ye would be idealists if we
reject th
"Don't you think that we must be consistent with
ourselves and VI ,t we the Arab countries - under
and ,,bove whose soil the black a.14 flows - munt
be united in facing the reality? By extending our
hsnds to the Western ale* and by ooncluding with it
defensive-offensive alliances and 'treaties lest
we fall, not under the boo fe of the horses, but
as fuel to fire steel and probably atoms, but
on conditions Ad conditions and on equal footing.
The oil has united our land% despite ourselves.
It hes tied the fate of the one to that of the other.
It is therefore our duty to have a unified to ret
policy r,ind to have allies upon vtom we oould depend
rnd ?o could depend upon us, 'le must 'therefore
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nnify our entire Arab riesunder one.
1.tY must co-ordinateeOur rr3.Lv In the It. t
of the 'rele Lisgue eleartere te Le ,:rue must
reeune its. Petivitli.,:g on the bas.1 s of new
prinolples, far removed from conceit nnd
preolpitoUs measures, end on *le banie of
the 'Vosterdn, *Ind end -methods.
se-e hold feet ,to 1.8banont to tie independenee
and sovereirnte'r to the lest breath. vie bold
fast to its territory and tO every particle
of its bleeeed meil. But the oil agreements
must urCe Us, after having voluntarily signed
them, to extend cur hands to the Areb countries
and to the Western powers that now heve interests
in our oountry, Thio must be done if we want
to not, h.e.moe4oue1y with our sound thinking.
Neutrality in this life belongs to no en*. Indeed
co-operation bet-eeen ourselves and the Arab
etetee on the ons .hand, and between the Arab
countries -,end the Weetern Moo not ray !pacific,
peeper on the other, must be our aim in this
interval, if ee co not trent to fall as a Cheap
prey to fire, steel and atoms.
*Hundreds of millions of dollere will be speref-
by the oil companies in the great Arab nation.
This nation will enloy a great position -
visat a greet position - if we know how to exploit
these raillioee in our agricultural, industrial:
oommerciel, social ,-nd oultural reneissance;
if we knov, hoe to exploit them in cheeking the
enemy - the Israeli state - *itch is lurking
on our borders,
have lost lite bettle of Palestine nd we must
not lose the battle of the present and the future,"
ffkL
deells on the %abject of reforms and es ree that
the ciov eminent a transfer and repine nent of of fi alai s
oan not be recorded a= reforms.
refersLHALITfl
to the ve nun ent reorganization m ea su re s
and stat in this connection, that the Government
must eLiminate from Its machinery tales* elements
weho distort the truth, fabricate lies and oreate
slender., They have been broueilt to thArir positions
in order to errvesneoia3. purposes awl to o'-ate a &Ratio
atmosphere, inspired, al) they are, by their overlords
eho w,nt/to eerve them and not the oountry."
these elements
AD..DIreet
devotes ite editorial to the 'Abject of the cultivation
of Hashitir in Lebanon and oemplains thet Lebanon's
reeutation le being prejudiced, prreticularly in07gypt,
bee use a orall selfi 41 and evil band of opportunists
are making fortunes from these nerootios. It calls
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oh becsttase
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t to aesbat th growing of
LO seedtimq
aP1Maching
ort s that efforts are now be ng made for the
-formation of a caolition Cabinet to 'be headed
by rUn.dh 33+ son with the membership of Oreille
Snamun, Henry Faron and Ilabib Abu Muhl*. This
Coalition government will_ carry out the reform
progrms and introduce the new eleotion bill.
,3 paper reprint a long sti,tement which Sant
elh nas mwle to As-skyyad weakly review regarding
shortcomings of the prnsent administration In
Lebanon, 3ami as-Seib said, Among other things*
The Government was offered, thmugh my mediation,
three hungred tank sk The Goverment neglected
this offer but zwnlked until after the tanks
were sold to the Jews by those -Tho first wanted
to make the deal with the Lebanese government,"
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oomplaine of the delay of the Chamber of Deputlet
in examining the 1949 state budget, wiehes if the
rinistee of Finenoe had :Oven a scientific explanae
tion of the budget's veripus Chapters of expenditure
,ne says that the Deputies de not regularly attend
the meetings and that eAch one of them is interested
in setting the lion's shere for his own oonstituene"
re peper then uontinues:
"After all this; the Deputies revolt when wdir
say that most of them dee not represent Us but
represent those who brouptit than to the Chamber
through illegal andundereocratic methods; lend
when we demand the 4iseo1ution of the (ember
which does not fulfil its miseione?....Are we
. therefore to blame if we a& for ie dissolutiOn
of the CheMbor; if Ire demand the revision of tht,e
lection Levi and If we seek the introduction of-
reforms at one time by youths who appreciate the
responsibilititx of government, now that the
Isreeli state is only a few steps Away from us?'
Columnist Basal Daesme makes the folloring =men Son
the Ax'b Governments' perticipetion in the hodes
nefeet atlonst
*Nein Arab delegations will go to Rhodes next
week. This is a truth Allah the Ae.Ab goverNinents
are makine evident now. There is hot even the
sliehtest ray of hope that the Arabs will rejeet
Bunches invitation.
"Theee delegations 411 got just as the Zgyptian
dele4ation has one, to negotiate with the Jells.
The Arab Governeente will tell us*
"'Mt we will not negotiate with the Je-v
Th r final peece. We will not reoognise
Iereel and we will not accept the partition
of Peleetines. The Arab governments might
aloo smY1 'le will oontinue upholding the
prinoiple of the Arabiem of relestine. we
will now negotiate in order to discontinue
the etAte of 'very awaiting the final deoisi
of the :hated Nations Ormnisation, we
will neentlete in order to carry out the
will of the Meeurity Council and to contribute
to mead peece and Middle &Intern stability
Military negotiations do not mean negotietions
for'
olitical peace end the outlines which ie
will draw in Rhodes will be emporery,...ehich
the (lontiliation Commission could emplitdet.
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" 11. i t-,
So deceived for
reamenst Sirol,ww,kiepilLseiples of the
Joint Ajb ees tiesplie el es trny the J e-eija
state by force have teen abandoned by the
Arabs then -elvest and second, depersieneemes the
UN means auxrendfor to the Jeeleh. terms. We .,
will not be deceived ac,-Lin, The historians
rs'r....1.1 record; -reel was beptised in Rhode
complains of the methods by which the courts
re h.andlisse nc vsper publisher 3 under tbe Pre
Lar and cleolr,,res "liberty is no hem.
They recently enaoted e. lw which does not only
kill this liberty but threatens newsmen -71th
imprisonmen, should they disobey the will et
the aeral or its contradictory measures,
7171^,G-411,TH
writes that the Lebanese pr,ss unanteously meintsin
that the state budget is replete with extras
exnenditures and inflated salaries because Iebinon
exiii net beer a budget of 73 million Lebenese nds
moat of *Utah are derived from indirect t,-,xesr,
i,fter oormarine; the fieures of the 11939 budget with
these of 1.949 T'ncl after deploring the pll...;-ht of
the Lebanese workers and peasants, the paper demands.,'
the disso13,ztion of the loresent Chamber of Deputies*,
=AZ
eel) $ upon the krab i:overnsiente to help the Arab*
of ralestine to save Jerusalem from the Zionist*,
In reviewing the present developments of the Priestine
question and the neoessit,y of maintaining the !!.rab
and Christian character of Jerusalem, thts paper
deolares in parts
"Perhaps the nost important recent event Is
the eonfrenee the Arabs of Palestine held
in Jerusalem Itself under the chairmanship of
Camille Inemun. The unanimoue agreement on
having thie Mristimes end raronite he..7,d the
Arab Palestinian .4interence In Jertisalse Wag a
unique move in these dircumstances, It bee
a far?reaching politioel sistniflortrioe because
5eamseediA. "et head the conference this
tia-,?n Arab politioal leAer...but as a
Uhristian Arab personalty, 'Ye need not mention
the euece!r3 achieved at thie conference, but we
are inliceting the imporl;ance ef Ormille Shame, s
chairmanship of this conference end its great
sipeitioence in international circles."
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The fr.:flowing is R n informal digest ef rlaterial frlm the lndal
end is in nfl way to he considered es nn cffioial tra7slatinn.
he. qqeted nor clttributed to the Legation.
re ss
Arabi d
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?CPYRGH
No. 260
Phv4L-A) aiGI;bT, TUEL)DAY, lx,131tUAEY 80 1949
StIt
NtliSPAPHS iLflD
Alif Bat, Al keyha?, Al Naar, Al Alam, Al Kifah,
al Insha?, Al Balad, al Nazir, Al Shabab, Ad-Duha,
and Al Jabal.
dim40.0004MODOMPW
FRAflCU.6Y4IAN UiL.
YEBLWARY Z.HISTOhIC DATE IT
A.1...ay..hAU At 1 p.m. yesterday (Feb.7) ki.L. the 4inister
of National bconomy called on finance Minister Jabbara in
his office at the Serail. At 1:30 p.m. H.B. the irench
ilenipotentiarY arrived in the tierail accompanied
by his Financial an Legal Counselors, and the Press
Attache of the French Legation, and confered with the two
Ministers, After 15 minutes, the Prime Minister arrived.
iLfter 5 minutes, the reporters of the press were allowed
in to see the -Frime .L.dnister flunked to his left by the
Liinisters of .inance and National b.conomy, and to his
right by the i!rench Uinister aiLd his financial Advisor,
and ths signature serelliony started. kinance Z.linister
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Jebbara signed on beh
:crench Minister Seere
-Immediately folleei
distributou thefollJ in
reporters:
of the yr Ian Government, and
behalf ot the French Government.
Iinartee ,iinister Jabbara
omsauni gee to the press
On behalf cf the Leerien GOverrnaont I have to-day
(Monday9 Iebruary 7, 1949) signed the agreelaent for the
liquidation of OUT relaticns witn krance. On teis day
Syria hao officially reoordee thk_priaciple of uneonditional
independence or the Syrian QurredWyc.
"According to this ezreement9 Pranee has recognized
Syria's retirement from the Freach Iranc Bloc, and there-
fore the _Cranes in Irench possession which were previously
considered as a cover for the ,;yrian currency have now
becoec e debt in favor of 3yr2 and. /Nill be paid in
fixed installmente.
"Tee text weice was sisened consisted of tnree
nereeLlents and eevecal explanatory suiellements. Thai irst
e.reeeeet embodied the lf.euidation of oyrian claims on
itrence weicil were previoucly called tne eyrian currency
cover. This eo;reement eoerrerted this cover to demands
and securities welch Lae rreaoh Govt0 hasP unaertaeen to
reimburse to the byrian Governeent in 14 semi annul
installments, tae first of whibh eould be due at the
be;innin3 of 1948, and the lest 0- October 1, 1954.
"According to teis agreement, :eyrian claims have been
divided into two parts:
e) guaranteed and paid in installoients (16 parts
out of. 23) and e,weous 7 billion frahes. The
b) second part is not guaraeteed ana coacists of
the remaining 7 parts, ehieh will be used to
pay .erench claicas and to purchase foreign
currency.
"In accordance with tee guaranteed part, Iraece under:-
teees to pay the difference of the franc devaluation as of
December 249 19489 until the liquidation of this debt.
Therefore, irance rill pay for the past the difference of
54.35 franca to the ,jyriee founds, effective Dec. 249 1948
,eLid to-day's value f leG J7reeee. Thri difference
amounts to 8.5 billion francs, thereby increasing the 7
billion to 15.5 billion,
? "The
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"The !trench Government has further guaranteedto pay
to the Syeien Government the difference arising from any
future devaluution of the franceaAeonceo
"Secona ngreenent: The second agreement deals in
the payment of mutual claisis, and specifies the means by
whien Syrian clajeis are paid by 1,rance and vice-versao
Syrian claims comprise 8 million Syrian pounds, being
Syria's snare ?grom tue LS, 14,55890(A. which was carried
away to rrance by the Clench vicey 'Government *from the
Seereme'ecuncil of Connon intoreets, bonds or Ottoman
public uebts, some of the LS30 hares, a sum of 10,248
Turieish pounds in golu? 145'eterlin?; and 2500 certificates.
representieg TVs share fTo..a tne Ottoman kublic 'Debt?
"The rrench claims, amounting to LS, 23,200,000
comprise the value of the ..renee ?Lepublic's property in
byriag value 02 the telephone nettork and value of
equipment wended over .to the .eeriun nrmy after. the 14rench
evacuation from Uyrian territory?
"It is worth mentioning that the agreement which was
signed to-dae 1Feb. 7) hes clearly stipuluted the
abandonment by both Parties of all claims not specified
in this aereamento 7:This includes tile LS. 130,000,000
lAnich the ,rench Government had previously demanded as
expenses of the ',Inn( of the Oriente?
"Third nereement: The third one is a .payment
agree;aent9 and doe not airier in its text from the similar
ugreeuents conclueed hetvieen deeply-rooted independent
countries usually resort to in organizating their
comnercial rel:tions with each other, It is similar
particularly to the :vranco-British, kranco-Bel(iian, and
Iranco-JJ,gypto-Bruziliatt areemonts.
"One of the characteristics of tidu a,.;reement with
respect to Syria, is that in audition to specifyine, the
b sis of barter betueen the tee countries, it embodies
a pledge by the erench Government to facilitate the export
of French products necessary for thealuipwent of syrian
inuustry and aericulture
"One of the appendices of tne agreement provides for
the cessation by the Syrian Government of its campuisei
against the leeeeliey of ireech concessions and i'renen
companies in syria, proviaeu the companies 1,3.11 be subject
to Syrian leC.slationo Tnie agreement will be referred
to the ollumber of Deputies for ratification in the present
eession. Only z,heli will the full text of the agrecuent
be publishodo'
0444.
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.,1.1114;INT;
fIr, lNasr was the only paper N4.1cb printed an
etaiterial co ,,,ent of the J.,Auco.oyrlan Gurrehcy _,,greemento
thditor 1.4adi? Sidawi )Aritcs in tkia,reseoct;
In addition to its ccoltolc and financial significance)
this agreeeut has also 1 polit1o1 significance. 'or
the first time in the modern history of Syria, kreach nd
8y,T.lan representatives sit ar000vt the same table) every
party renresentl.u; a country to Lilly independent .akd free
to neEotiate and ai3n. The iInance :Anister while signing
tfle agrement ht;d o rcleling o netiow,1 pride, since he
anaerstood he 'was cj it on behalf of a free ;thc: ihaedemient
peooleo
The incident ()cans a no era of friehdshil) on the
baFis of elaboration in the international field for the
benefit of ',Iorld peace and. eii1LzatiOfl0
to bile L;leiteisial bert it 1Ci.. this liquidation
provides for, Le believe they are ,alny, and these benefits,
are confident, 1.111 be used by tc 6yri.,11 uovorniaont
to cover Ito currency.
Al_RiYha: Political circles have received the new of
the Exanco-yrinn tir,,,r,,reocant pleasurec
The effect, of si.ning the a6ree.:ient
in the financial anu commercial marilets,
cn:creacy imaiediately becanie uvalloble on
the Llyin cu-vrency,. 'onsequontly,
of all the forein currencies) including
showed a consiuerable ..ecroaseo
Ga6ents by .Hinisters:
was crystal-cle%r
the.ve Lebanese
an ec,c11 footing
the zar4et prices
thm dollar,
Al IrAmha': jihnce jni ster jabbara attributed his success
in est=shing a rirv economic situation in the country
to the collaboration b2 the strugiLin people of 6yria, and
cAld:
In our last gioetiugs Ibitil? the representatives
of the Lebar,ese Goverant, the latter shoucd a new
falin towfJ.rd our poliit:::; of cie i. :..ch clearly
evinced a 11,:. tendency of Lebanon to coordinato.the
economic
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economic: problems of the t-eo countries te or
mutual benefit" .e
Minister 6annaui tolu'our correspondent that it
has now become possible to diseuss with Lebanon the
finencial end econesdc relations between the two
countries, and hoped thet the discussions would start
very shortlyte
PrtiiLLI4v1ila 9 G iiJtbY ?r 1949.
slif Ba': Parliament rnsuo.ed its meeting yesterday (/eb07)
at precisely 5:00 p.m. to resume the debate or 1949 budget
0. number of deputies, particulerly the .seople's .earty,
demanded the abolition of articles relutive to the allotments
for the aecoretion of tit() eer3ia,ent building. hikhya reasonee
that %hen a strene,er visits tAk: 2erliaLlent, ne concerns
himsel! with its 'ectivities ese not tith its interior
deuoretjons.
Nazim al esidsi (-leepo) dwelt on the example Pei:istan
afforded where the Radio ,:etation is installed under tents
and vhose officials were very active.
6ulgesting a compromise Speaker Faris al hhuri said:
The Completiori and the fUrnishing of the Hall should be
affected gradually and with economy. "In every meeting there
are about 50-60 deputies abeent; I therefore, see no reason
for so much concern to find seats for them."
Ghazzl agreed on economy and simple decoratitn for the
Hall. The establishment of a printing press was then raised.
shmad ..anbar (Aleppo-I) objected and suggested that for
economy purposes the .earliament materials be printed outside.
The subject was put off for the time being until a true
picture is distributed to the deputies.
Durin3 this time the Zipeaker observed the departure
of some deputies. he bitterly criticized them and requested
them to have more patience and vote for the Budget. Minister
of Finance hasen Jabbara desiring to make certain clarifica-
tion said that the new officscreated in the Budget are not
actually new bur, were vacancies to be filled.
The "Secret" expenditures of the Prime Ministry was then
raised. requested -c:riat this allotment not be secret,
and that a part of it be ellotee to the press without
partiality. saki al-Ahatio (Damascus) requested the decrease
of the allotment 21:om 120,000 to ,-:5,000. Hunaydi (Deir-al-
Ler) went up to 500./00 Pound. a =iyrlan.
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liuhammadflj?(Damascus).? demanded the complete caneollation
of this item from the budget, as it Is only used "for the ?
purchso of conscience and newspapere? strong
:aaent'' he reasoned, "does aot need arv support from
the press 'hidh financed fro these allotments, at certain
ti;Aes cohtaihs ihsu1t11 articles about certain depatieso"
444rank_4,4auri (llama) supported the move for the
cancellation of these al1ot4ents which are spent on persons
whose places should be in 'dungeons. "If there should be ,
such an allotment, let it drop don to '?A) thousand," he
- suggested.
licifendilig the opin press Ahad ,d to the Legation.
ress
Arabic Pross,
It should r)ot
Mir.= IA G.OST, ii-L;L)NeZDAY, .1.i.C13RILARY 9, 1949?
1
tail Ba? 1 liasr, 11 kayha', Al Baled, iti yyara,
and Al
000
id' .3. IRS 12
kALLUItt, eL)1ii,l,T101'.1 CUi..4.1L,L.1014 E011.1.0f0111:
lifter mentionin6 the proLiram of the Uoncilie.tion
CaMmission, i4.1 if Ba1 goes on to political circles as
anticipatin, th.it tate Oonciliation Com:aission will not be
successful in its iaission, any Lioro tnan the..,lediator has
been, and tnat the wholesale recognition of Israel can only
increase the tension end widen the gap between the parties
concerned. The question of jerusulem will put the members
of the Contaission in a dilemma, owing to the conflicting
interests of the tirabs, Jews, and the United Nations*
TVS
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TPSHatitkt URGJIZ viAST:
IU Be2: The NEW has 'quoted S?,11.7r;:i. :Oasha
TJ envoy to -iiashington and London, as urging the .A?tabs to
411y ?qvith imerica and .Britain becau.sc he realized during
his visits that tne .hrubs could not live without those two
countries0 he is further quoted to have stated tht the ?
pro rams and plans of the tc iesterA oori toarC t113 A2abs
were very usefal0. he t-Lten denied havLig discussed in .
Shington the questions of Taplin? a US loan to TJ.,
1.11 0161AV._.,10S OTLii1i rLs L.
A1iBa'; It Is ;Lenerz...11y be] tht some U1 Observers have
been itlisus1h4, thtiir moveents beteea
the .,s.-rL?b States -1,.4 L,ionist terTitur Les9 and that the
penetratieD of Israeli currency had been effected
by those Observers0 la view of this rmlief, thf- Syrian
L'inistry of roreiL;n rairs bus contacted the Lebanese
.J.inistry of 1,oreign itffairs vdt!t vie u of issuing identity
cards to tuose gentle:. en u'j a. tin those v4h0 do not
hear such curds to ixispeL on at boundaries.
It is also rumoreu tn..t ,,,ivoise has communicated
to the Syrian Goverazat an isa!aeli messue to the effect
that the Jos insist LI rY011 niu y evftcuation of P:alestinLan
territory in return for. Je%.ish aba?ic;.,nmeht of occupied
Lebanese villages. The Gove_:. -:Lt is reported to have rejected
tills message.
1,1,T: ?
Alif Bel: Publishes in translatieh the text or the larger
part of an article on the above-mentioned subject frofa the
London TL.ies, hich advises social reforM tis a means of
coabuttin comounismo
TT dIlL GO TO
al IayhaQ: It as announced in ni pact; th kt the TJ Government
hud 6:int a rieSoa.3 to Jr o 1.:UTIC2 al 4V: )tilig his invitutioli to
collauct? t,-41s vit.0 representatives cf the Jews like the
.Lyotian3 ciid n official state confirming this is
reported
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reported the BBC to halt 'een isnod in 'Amman.
3. Cairo dispatch states that the Iraqi Government had
not:tried the ;gyptian of its refusal to participute
in the Rhodes' ta1k6p
Ra3SThais6',,RILLTIL,S 10 .,,GYPT:
A] if 73a9: The 1ypt1an krazier iiccived yesterday Lutfi
al-Haffarv Syrian Lnvoyl and al-hawi, iraqi
Charge d'fairep,, o handed their Governments'
replies to the Cairo resulution-:, on February 5,
nich ure ropor ted to be in c",unfs:-..11t, attitude
US regards the necessity SC 'n orders
of Loveriber ;And 16, and Id*e0Q.C* Te as well
US the 'Iraqip enoy in v,,,ypt 22c,;(1(-,1 tee,to 1is
country today.
Al Lifah qotes the P s havin. learned that thu
contents of the 'Iraqi reply consisted of an approval of
tne 'Iraqi Gcve..wient not to 'direct taisv ith the .Jews
before the present diseussicus Ii4ore over, and that neither
'Iraq nor the other hrab States.,;Itculd tae uniimteral action
?S toad the Conciliation Colwaissicno
DUI,A0T1C
A lif Jag: Our reporter lora tfl,t, in the itieotiii3 1,!nich
was hold at the ,dnistry of L4atiohal ,cehomy and attenaed
by the J'iinister ,ihd the Arab ,,illionnaire eih
it has been decided to ralit the h'-cab-A-ierican Uomppy
v,Wich "anhall will establish vilth a onnital of ?.4.00p000,000
a concession for Vetroleum icr.& in Southern :frriao
jig.L,R-10N itTT,X,Hheg
C:22-22.g.W.IL.Litcliall-h'Is been appointed to
succeed Colc macLTrath as L&ilitaryttacne. at the AMericani
Leation in Dalaascusc:
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Ur GIRLS .Zii.bUY6
Barada: having been informed by theismerican Department of
ducatfon tht education in ,shMorioa varies but little in
? respect of boys and girls, and that the same text books are
valid, theiAnistry of Public Instruction has started to
coordinate the programs of study for both girls and boys.
Barada: considers that the sifelih of Wie 4:ranco-Syrian
s.greement as an itportant intershi inc:uent, which the
people ht,ve ,00t vith satisfaction, fur it nad restored to
,fria its fina_cial status 1 has liqivatet) Syriah debts
with krance The parer tnFn ',oes on to -record that this
jovernent in quite q .,Lort,eeriod has solveh the question
of fuel, electric current, aLti f.lince, and to wish the
all success in solvirLT, iu stier problems which
it hF3d p2omiseu the Glimber of ik_,-,ruties to settle.
Al 1;.ifah, noweve2, in i s 'GooJ :o72ning' column pictures
the sining of the iranco-Syri,In .retzLent as a 'comic-
tragedy' in five acts. The first act relates how Lebanon
signed au a.ereement.with Irance in January 1948 and Syrian
inimica:L reaction and de,xand for final severance froL,
Lebanon. The second act Tel 4tcs the intercession of the
hrab Leaue and 4.ing Iba 'ud betean Liyria and Lebanon
and tneir failure to sett2e the question, The third .act
relatee how the Lebanese papers after a few months printed
tat Syria was ne,;otiatin,; finahcIal settlemdnt with Yr;Ince,
and the Syrian Government's ?att denyinF, the Iebanese
reeorts assortin-2; taut ,vria would never te.J.e such action.
Trio forth act sthtes that the Lebanese reports then stated
that Syria had sined the agreeent, but the ;.,yrian Government
still ignored thato The fifth act, then, accuses the Syrian
Government of having signed on liebruary 8, 1949, the same
agrea,dent with :rranee that Lebanon had previously signed
with some modifications, arid reports the immediate turnover
of the attitude of the papers to describe the oyrian ivlinistrx
who signed as a 'hero' 'while they previously had described
the Lebanese signatory as a 'traitor'.
Al
? Balad coluidnist alukht;Ar wrote in this
respect in raVor of the areadento he described the
financial question as being 'the most dan-erous question
that confronted the 6yrian mother-land since its independence'.
The Writer then states that the areaent was not premature
nor was
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AO :2 it exteaporanoous aaa re1e to tne-cptil:ltion
of the PraslicLe ttnd ianis T-to:1;otimtionn in
2ais lie .concluclee by oreditin41 und liasan
Bey for ti s victory and ur3in ..-L,,r1lL,11.(;nt to ratify
j.C.,?reeiaant? order to 'restor to t...te poo71e their
an.C. a2t(-1:2 tv4o years of finuncial
panic,"
GhuUP 1)111TLS:
Al,LAfaht The ?ildnistry of National W8f9nse has instructed
the recruitin centers to prepare fox up draftees
of the second group and to' pare lite of the draftees ?
to.. be pasted. on the-uallS 0
-:!1=?.0-1,3t.L(11-9,N 1,00NOIAIC Tld.&51
li.ifahg The Minister of ilationi ,_iconomy has yesterday
received the 13elgian ninistr)r i1enipotentiary9 C4ILLa.t_
D'Abripao in his office? It Is unkturstood that talk ts are
'fliiconducted between/.j.eiv. and Bel ;luu for the
establishment of new coerci-.J. J-1(1 econo.lic relations.
harere,ov.x...*oe
Jso/A4L,etr,
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The following is an informal digest of material frTm the local
and is in no we to he considered es en official trw,sletion,.
be quoted nor flttributed to the Legation.
No ? 29
press
Arabic Press,
It should ro-b
(kOR ST,,Fr U8t ONLY)
PRIXS DIGMT, FRIDAY, iLardJARY 10, 1949.
alit
BALa12gLIWIaMIL
Alif Bat, Al Nasr, Al Ciabass Al Manar, Al Fayhas,
Al Balad, Al Insha's Al Shaba, and Al Nazir.
???
Dfx.ii...LTIt: 41i .e4s.110.; .
Uh1bRIST5 'MAU
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Alit Bat: The directorate of i.olice has arrested suspected
terrorists and put in prison pendind deoreot and widescale
investigation. Secrets of greatest importance are expected
to be revealed from this irxvestigati011.0
;4INUTLS:
.11thou31 a aecision was taAen not to publish
any minutes of the Parliament, the byndieate of the press
has agreed
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has agrf.ou to publi',h the following in appreciation and respect
t,o ta,1 person of -.earls Bey
T'n.aiament approved yesterday (Feb.9) the budgets of
the ;inisti..y of hygiene aiLd L;ocial Affairs, and the Ministry
of Justice. Meeting was adjourned until Friday iWen.Ing
to res,ti.Lo the discussion of the badgni; of the lanistri of
i,gTiculture.
The meetin,,, scheduled for Iriday evening has he
postponed until L,aturday rorning, Feb. 12, at 10:00 a.m.
?
7.K.PD.R.T OF SYRIAN WEEAT: ?
la.TIEtsr:. In coll'ipliance with the request of the Anistry
'a -Rational conomy,the Yanistry of Finance ha agreed to
the abolition of 155 tax irapcd on wheat witot the view of
facilitatin tne.export of tile wheat alrea,dy stocked in
? the store-houses decree aboliehingsuch a tux and all
restriction on .the export of wheat and its by-products, is
expecte0 to appoar v1tiin tnese two days..
FRIdiCU7SYRIAV
hi anar In a two-coluL:in article this Moslem Brothorho0
.0r6:13:writos- in part:
It worth thentibning that ifrance has been atle, by
cenc1ubin3 !:=;.ch an agrceent to obtain an excellent position
in Syria. It is the first country with which Syria has
signed an international grcesv,ent since sever al years follow .ng
"our Complete liberation froi;1 all agreemnts and aliances."
It is not in .our interest to remain. away froi,1 interna-
tional aF;reements, but must avoid every thins prejudicial .
to OUP full independence etnd affective to OUT special
inter ..sts-interial or foreign.
There is another spect to wilch taam?ranceis
attention should be drawn; naLiely that the Syrian population
?keeos to irance painful meotiso and. that today it is ?
confronting a new test with the .;.yrian population and
Government. If i:rance continues to extend to us friendly
hans and forget cheep colonizing greeds, the mutual
cooperation betwead. Us v,ould be ooutinued.
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CLAIMS 0-r' Jr;4S:
- . ? ? ?
?
Ih -I.
e.following teleL7a0An fact addressed to the
responsible Goverumeat offices hatiVbeen received: From
the undersisned Jews residinG in ?anishliya:
.A.t.this time livhen the 'edlth.of Jazirah.is being .
exploited we feel tivit our ssriculture is threatened ',4ith
danger, Sheeps flocks have been, and still t.L:e pasturing
la our cultivated lands and NE.1 cannot protect our land us
we are forbidden to leave MIminhliya, de cannot. plough
our .lands for the saie reason. .,As nationals participating
in. the elevation of the COuntry's economic stwd? we :
humbly he the studyins of ;:)dr pofAtion and the lift of
.these restriction Li;.posed upoa u. durin extraordinary
events in as Much. as our Condtioh differs considerably
.froa that of the Isruelfto counitieo in the interior's
e request permission to circulte within tne district
'alone, or lidth_the company or the Lecarity officials., in
order that we carry out th nisi on for vhich we have.
sacrificed ourSeiVes for the op. of servins the country,
und helT) tne orogres of t.Le country's natural resourees
with the assistance of hundreds of z.)yriali families.
?it armors SA/ iya usha hum, ur aj Shabi _Car j o
nth Iu.jo Nahum, Ma '4L1.1u1 Yahuo alim iviusha Shamlu? an
balim -);tanimos
(I, 1 1 ' T ! 1 1. 1 0 ? ? 1??, ? ' , re a
44, .$ .. ,
?[..C????? to. nme. oweesemm....Wwww,
AlJf 30; asaAl about tL,3 WJWS spread by nev agencies
in the United ;ztute to U ect that plan similar to the
r"ai1 LI 11 bUt on li.aallor Scale, is beiXig. prepred Crf
ddle -,6aSteTn CouxitTiu.s,r.1:inister1i.i l-/i&zm
said: ?
The zyrian k;overnment 11.2 not :oecived any
in formation on this subject nu haL5 not ever 1)n arroar.;h2d.
with regards to this questions
Pr imelanister roT)lyinG to another c:fuesti.ori relative
to DT. Bunche's invittion Comunications between
the Arab countrtQs. are unde ih order to relICIP.
coilcetivo deciion nU.. only sfmld our relics to
Dr. Bunch?
F.GIIPSS/act.
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JIGLpT, ThUhL:1D11Y 11;BRIL,RY 10 1949.
Nza5P.iPla;
Fayha', al LIanar, Al Ayyam, Al Balad,
8habab, A1 Duha and al Jabal.
14Ttiladi.
liCitZ; 0h4-11.;iUTL.b LLSZiON:
In retaliation to the hostile attitude of the
Chambar of lieputies toward the Press, the publishers of the
papers have met Irld studied the situation anu decided henceforth
"to abstain from honorind the deputies through mentionind their
names ana debates in their papers*"
Following is the text of the communique issued by the
Syndicate of the Press:
"Pursuant to the impolite campaign of some deputies
against the. press during Parliament meeting on last idonday
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(Feb 7) and the toleration by the other?ouuties of.tne
insult of the pre nd the false accusations made against
it, the ?publishe-:s of the pacers held a meeting on
iedhesda,y9 t,:.chrtry. 9, 1949, at tht(offiee of the Chief of.
thzir 1uj'e fiz tuation. They
unaimouslyr ct to oonden tntifides? carinai,h, and.
to expresn thoir sozrow for the n e attitude taken ?
by the Lease toar this compui3n. 2hey also have resolved
to retaliate theinsult, and to Phee the attitude of the
Eouse with a similar neative attitude, 'through .ubsteining
frola aentio.hin in thei pacers the naileS,. debtes, and
minutes of the meetings, tnu to satisfy themselves by
printin the Teqlts of tie '?
,
03.o) Chief of yndicate,
Nassuh Bubil. -
jecretary?.,dadi' Sidawi"
P4tuLT- .1.r4Q1.,)
Al Nusrl in conformity Lith.th(, deciFion of tile Press
print hexvihr_4er thc x...t:ults of the our -
Pa.e1L.cient neetings held aorin, two days
The l'arliament contilawd the uobate of the Parliament
budget ,ithout bein; affeotQu tue crisin and the necessity
of decreasin.7, the appropv'tationc anc.. salaries of tie deputies,.
And then uppro7ea the b,.4dets o: tho ilJrliament's L'taff, Council
of ',tat:se, anc, the :.inist:cies or .:2'orei,:n. r.ff;lirs, National Defense
7_tnd Interior. ,t the end of yeat-?.day's (Feb, 9) vleetinCp
a battle wus al-,out 60 hrenr: betlie3a 4whe 'noble deputier.
around the ap2ropri,Aionc allotted to the Chiefs of Tribes
which amount to IS. 80,0UU had it not been for tile intoreesrAon
of the LipeaAer. The meotin,? Y:ar :td:ouzncld unt!.7 ?0-morroli4
(to-day, Thursday, Feb. 10, l9496,-,
?
aiaP;11LiLOO:.)A1 -A.ifah e hereith doclru ryar vAthdrawal from the
osioA Brotherhood organization.'"
S.Lmcd; .cgrmat Luyglis hudaymi,
Tillouhammad al 13ahdadi, 1ucad Ladd al Laqqa.,
IhscAn Ldbihati, Ltahau Ll Lazhur al ?
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1OLITIC,
Mfah: A communique' was published in Cairo regarding the
results of the meeting held between thc representatives of
4rub States9. with the exoeptiori Transjordan.
,Lc.cording to this t?oirtraunilu4 the f oliewing. two points
had been decided in, these laeeting:
I.. Not to ?At ex any ?ne!o tiations with the jev:s before
the termination of the tulLso_nuer way in idiocies
in order to realiz?he extent of the Jews
readiness for understahding 6
26 . Not to encounter the three-Liember ?'onciliation
, Commission indi'fidu.ally, but to coordinate the
efforts to encounter the Coission as a unite
r.ALLbTiVh
tl Nasr:
siced vdiethea2 or no 6:y-ria had dispatched its
reply to jr. Bunche's invitation to A.trticipate in the
ilhodes' discussions, official sources of the Ministry or i'oreign
4ffeirs stated thet the Syrian Goverment had postponed the
n;niiing of the reply nendihe; the return of Lutfi ul-liaffar
from. Oaire SO that the reply woLkla be styled according to
the results of the Uairo conferchces, ? Other reliable sources
state that Lutfi u.1.-Huffar coi.Imunicate to the 1?overnment
the results of the .a;gyptc.)-4,ionist .liodes1 talks, semi-
official sources had it that saaie ,Arab sources had accepted in
principle the participation in the hodes' tul.s, except Syria
and 9Iraq, which continue to flatly refuse the invitatiuns.
A.n official spoxLesman of the 1,oreign Office has declared
that the 4i.rab Governments will, in their first contact with
the Conciliation Commission, discuss the question of the arab
refugees' return to tneir Countryo? They will also confer,
the .s.loXesraan added, on the. rest oration .of the refiazees"
property.,
Al Nasr
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4 Naar correspefideut leurns t:Ait the l.0GweraJaent
has lodged a protest to the ,lhterwItiohal Red Cross Society
in Geneva a6ainst the Ul treatment of 4trab prisoners-of-
war by the jevis, Luid eaoecially their under7 nourishmente
Wnich contrdicts the 'simelest rules of intrnational lav4.
I?,_aradag Baruda correspondent lourns froa reliable sources that
a mooting was held someAhere in ,ibu-Xamal between some Cl'iofs
of .3yrian Tribes ,Ind the Tribal deputation ,:4hich accomnaniad
the ?Iraqi lic6ont to the Hashimite loundary Conference, Tie
paper states that those who arranged for the meeting viere
men vho live in Abu-Ka.lul as wepcliant :And serve fro:a behind
the screen the interests of a fL2oifl uountryo The pacer then
says tht an official of the ulLic ecurity in the Euphrates.
The paper consiuers this inceti as being u plot against
the security of the byrian epublic and urges the Government
to. -sive due consiaeration to the incic,ents af the boundarics
which are not more secret?
FoGli/JSU/ tZ/aeto
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Mobile Brigade Raids Federation of Unions
Accentuating its offensive in the repression of
seditious activities, the Mobile Brigade -. which
arrested several persons Inthe mob crowding in the
Palace of Justice on the day of the trial of Mustafa
al-fARIS and the communists who demonstrated before
UNESCO center recently raided the headquarters of
the Federation of Unions of Lebanese Workers' and
Employees (of which IARIS is President).
The Brigade arrested
Faliz Mahmud al-HALABI
Badr Mahmud AHMAD
Muhammad All PAYYADH
Jean Nicolas MANSUR
Georges SHIHADAH MARDIROS
Tannus Elias HUSAYNI
Sad-al-din MUMINAH
Georges Astad SALIBA
Arif Ahmad ABU-KHADDAJ
The report of the police on this incident remarks
that the above were preparing "to foment acts
prejudicial to public order."
Le Jour
2 February 1949
ti.!f.0,5rturil P
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The correspondent for the Deli' ez-Zor
newspaper "Barada" reports that an
employee of I.P.C., Mr. KIRKBRIDE, son
of Major Lash of the Arab Legion, is
said to have been expelled by the Syrian
Surete for anti-Syrian activities; Mr.
KIRKBRIDE is said to have served as
liaison between certain tribal chiefs and
General GLUBB Pasha. (AFP)
L'Orient
6 February 1949
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Georges CYRts Exposition
The opening of Georges CYRts exposition,
"Twenty Years of Painting," will take place
at seventeen hours on Eleven February 1949.
It is organized by the French Cultural Mission
and will be held in the conference room of the
Centre dtetudes superieures franoais (former
military cinema), Rue de Damas, Beirut.
Le Jour
6 February 1949
EKLosu
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Mustafa al.tARIS and his Comrades
are Sentenced to Two Months'
Imprisonment and Eighteen are
Acquitted
The Court of Justice reconvened at noon on Five
February to pass judgment on those who demonstrated
before UNESCO Center.
The following were each sentenced to two months in
prison, but since they had been in prison for more
than that period awaiting trial, they were released%
Mustafa al-fARIS, principal
instigator
KOSBAKIAN (may be Daybess KUSSALIAN-.cte)
Qabalan QURBAN
Elias BUWAYRI
Datud DANA
Nasib NIMR
Maurice SHAMI
Mlle. Marie SAMAN
Eighteen others were acquitted.
It is known that the Court of Justice had previously
sentenced about ten union members to fifteen days
imprisonment each for having posted photos of al-IARIS
on the walls of Beirut.
Le Soir
5 February 1949
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A Difficult Matter:
The Judgment of Mustafa al.'ARIS
After deliberating for four consecutive hours,
the high court of justice deferred sentencing
those who demonstrated before UNESCO until
February 5.
In the meantime, the Court ordered the release
of five accused demonstrators:
Jean NIMR
Malik ABD-AL-MALIK
Hajj AMY
Marie SAMAN
L'Orient
3 February 1949
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Death of Abdallah KHURI
All Beirut newspapers report the death of
Mgr. Abdallah KHURI on 5 February 1949.
rt.a.VAtillINIPI,' ?
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Terms of the Federation of Workerst Unions
The Federation of Unions of Lebanese Workers and Employees,
consisting of sixteen officially recognized unions, sent an
appeal to all workers warning them to guard against those who
try to exploit them for personal or political reasons.
The appeal asks the Unions to unite under the Federation Which
promises them the following terms:
?
1) Application of the labor law with all necessary good faith.
2) To find healthy homes for the workers and reduce the cost of
rents.
3) To assure hospitalization for sick workers at a cost not
exceeding what they can pay.
4) To create a savings bank to help the workers when they are
unemployed.
5) To hasten the appointment of labor inspectors.
6) To prevent the discharge of workers without sufficient cause
in accordance with the amendment of Article 50 of the Labor
Law.
7) To hasten elaboration of the social insurance law, so as to
fight unemployment, sickness and to help the aged.
8) To extend the jurisdiction of the Social Affairs Services
so that they can settle rapidly labor conflicts and prohibit
the employment of foreign labor.
9) To raise salaries to a minimum consistent with the cost of
living.
10) To add supplementary annexes to the labor legislation
concerning unions and boat and port workers.
LfOrient
3 February 1949
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k Radar Unit, Addressed to a
Merchant in Beirut, has been
Seized in Los Angeles
The United Press Correspondent has informed
us from Los Angeles that among goods con-
signed to Salah-al.din BAKI of Beirut,
customs officials in a routine inspection
discovered a mobile radar unit in a commercial
consignment probably destined for Palestine.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the
engine came from surplus army materials.
The unit was confiscated and the affair has
been brought to the Federal Court.
Lt Orient
4 February 1949
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rbrury 21 194
emphasising th4t tour fld urtrner rort1ng
ecnstitute :,, r scum of revenue I eb:74.non,
this paper thr arias that ono!! trade bel-:nee
rly 8, " oYreat efIc11 and that "were it not
the intsib1?.:revernses 0 rived from the emigres,
tourist and Ammer ti'-e, the edueational
itutions, the transit, the bleak ri' r'',:at, the
ild purahase of mid and were LebAnon not a
lucky aountry? It w,auld haVe proolilmec its bank-
ruptcy a long tine ,1%,(:;:o." The paper maintains that
the vernment -1.nd tha eeple have-uterly neglected
the developftent of the st and sun mer trade and
recom%eads ti-LIt the st As of hotels be raised.
that pasmort and no 11 ti et :be aboll shed, and
that means. of .confts ,curity and arlueement be, provided
visi 0 718 during tnj journ in tebanen.
CPYRG
Y,
deals vdth the (alb stot ef:Palestintan refuReee
declares in parts
?The recovery of rill* tine Us a tn*et in the
hands of every Arab, Indeed it is a noose
vtich will threaten every netbrring state with
strangling and Win ng co long as the Jeri& State
existal, But tit* ire; moral responsibility in
thin ries/poet falls on the eholes of the
Palestinian reftlgees themeelVes. They must
imvortalise its frlo ry in their he,-rts. They
must bequeath their eons Jettkxtlus hope for its
reoovery, taking Jewish methods from the Talmud
to Irgun and stern as their beet examples.
0 krab refugeesj The Jews lived s refugees for
two thousand years until they returned to the land they
did not inhrteitisin.ger than yourselves. =-;ould you
give the osming -generations and history living
rs, oof that you believe in you.r right and in
your homeland and that you ;frill relnAin faithful to
it for ll time, until you realise wh..-7,t the Jews
have re,zlized and return as malters to Palestine?
Columnist Bataan Dactziaq writes that the Artbe have
only one alternative left theca, namely, bargaining
eith the jews, "We won't call this begeing bemuse
w-,.ht to maintain our remaining prentige hioh
they have lowered to lite ground.* The Columnist
then oon tinuee!
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The d1t;rrnes? or
Middl
la dravin its
rf:rtr:.. not fcir t
Tantrn r the
alliance
cle
dicputc
the ikr,9b
e e-,ke of :od, of the
Crowns or of f1dea1o4e 1 to seek
before, dUring /itnd after the Palestine b
they it at least noix attemPt to exploit,
8 Posable, the projects the Pritish and the
,Verisans have:.formulated or are foratulating, so
that they (the 'Itrabs) might abet* the oppressiotnese
of Va. Jewish necctiator and eo tist the A ,t rulers
rht not be told, if they lose 13-ler-tint, that they
toldj the cte. etteeply...
in co onti
,,r;reo on Pia
t ions*
.krab roqdr 741
not L1;'rle Egypt
that:
is pcf,ceo, aims Of */14110h are rzlMg in
odes, will undoui,tedly spread in the , 10
East, nut it still ree*in as the child of ue?ct,
indi'-rerence n4 arrogPnee Which dointte the
Arab rulers during the oonfliet. They madi
attrnottve prorttees to the Arab pesples but tailed,
unfortunately, to fulfill any one of these
pro id see? n
The paper then urges
oonfidence of the Arab
mvernments mus
savilv; the situr.,*
Leb,ax)n aboliah oApitnl punishment
o it y life itaprisonment in line with
oet&tlo?Ted in advanced wuntrims, It
opitl punishrrint has n:Ter stop,-"rd
in Lebanon and that the souls of the people
thoir eator only.
comenon tii,, ant aluic
trade Agreement and ea s that It =i1 a overtures
for friendship '01th the A di? States, particularly
with Lobar's:n.1, ise made foF the purpose of strengthening
its position for reoovering Libya, The paper then
writes in thin ?or/Ascalon?
In order to help Italy ref2lize this 'mese,
American diplorsney began its deep ne tivities to
bring closer Italy. el viewpoint 1-1,ro th.t of its
friends the Arab statesmen in Lobann,
Damaecus and Saudi Arabia., Lebanon h be ..n the
link betwlen the Arab old Italian diplomacies.
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It has bei7-11 rewarded, i.'or shouldering this
job, '9th -.,,,L;reement -!'r3.1eh
recently be.,-.11 c1uded b.,1.1. its ;go erit
the .:(...,%rerninent? The antiCiPlited
?
fruits of t1.11F.,. ::.4.7oersiont would be the :,,re-opening
o t the Banco di 7tovia.. Ileirut and ci!..."-Jyr Lebandee
1. ;aim, one of its restuts -.,o0.:L1 be LikbenOn'
ocyrkti1Luz,.,.1 efforts 17, 0 7) eratacie yrt, in addition
tc.1. the ret of the 'crab countrie., o'!--A.irn the
to of '1 -bY tO rd trIly
is seeking 771,t1t the support of ,2.nd the
finited 3tate.? -
enr. npfle by t".!1 increased 71"kug,ain; by Ar,b 9
of an i,e And fa-, 3t fte..slaro as the Leb,?n ?re, Syrian
and `1.-:'?:)sjorlzri borders ter the Jews, th1 .p.er diamonds
that t:t respective Arab governments ellould not hesitate tr.)
411 twee ongP.ged iri such acti.vitie:h
e f erir313 er,11 gr itno, zn-....1pnorts their
r1ritration I:s-btp3c. citizens,
r-ports thlt a eleltion from the Comolt'Ate on the
..:;i4.;1ts of omen has protested to the Iraqi illnister
Beiral. pqA1.11$1; tiw ha r.?,1 ng of fol.ir you hg in Ir2q.
A deleCr%tio-kri fllora the s.finv.1 Corlysitte, the paper writes
in ..anotivr h.ss cvIlled on 'LiloIrnin 7:,,egation
in Beiro..t. prOtested. .1.43ainet? the n:rrost in Toileren
of Iii,.1,-tryma .r.eiruz., ...leaber of theZ.xecutive (.7iommittee of
the 7nternational 7ederation of Women. and the President
0-c -r...ho ento Orge.ntzation? in Iran, to.g.ether
with ot;lar e
till ra ',GRAPTI rite t.t.'--t t ha 3 been
vt()d. 7)7 tilL.).tiont; fro.t7. al-Ashrafiyn, 47...!:ni. An-113.hr
111,ve pro'..,ested against .the :..rxrest of
141S9er:.thr and undor the ao0us;Ation of having
tikn .1-vzrt in 1;11,7., (7.erion.stn.:Ytion no.:71r th.c. Iraqi Legation,
Beirut, 171.e assertad th.r.A these tvro. i!-Arls
rc nbt 1..11vo1v-71. In the dersormt.ration Ln 0,uestion.
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coosooer its editorial to the subject of refonis and
artleo, tho.t refooms do not mean the r;utzeis7torl of
one bill otter rno"-..er to P, rlirimen.t or the transfer
Of of Ciclz-ls or o-r..o lip?servioe, rte1 roforms, it
0Ontinues? must 'of? effeoted by s ohanfoc in the lity
Mew pr ,v tiltfl -, vorrusent deo, rtments, by the
rentioloo of th _lootion loot by the tilarlinol of
_olals, by the forru).otion of a perm, ant
,ore nd by the prepo.retion of e0000.lo plono for
dcooloping the ocu.ntry' rosourceo. If the responsible
a.ut`ocritior to ooroy out tile 11-ovo outlined reforoe,
it ? (.A11(1 'Dotter for them to levo the Pttbi1nietrttofl
NW to n their homoo, the etiltorisl ennoludes.
nine, like E?,?:::1111. that reforre muot bofri.n with
In the olontolity of the =lore :,;,nd not. with
ro, e.t..1vo t run ore. obi oh rezeoble 'r bri t
onei oolored bolloon for '''Tho ionuseocot of thildren?t1 ?
Under the ho,olline "A fair deal for Iraq" .7,olunnirt
;Icop,511.1 D000aq oritos tho followings
Lirviol.kbte,..7.13,', ientric.s h1-toro oussed
loot woek Co.,,,ousonlotz Trori; r're the
641terist 6-Onto-noel 90 far Tr.?sroel .'_:croounists
in ono- Azo--_b country.
Nit nijit be tD(Ur.7.tia??.????4?, ..**40t**1?11.0.01?M ?
,e1,Balad: Published today a letter recently received
from General Spears in connection with an article written
by the ,ditor upon his retAru froli London in wnieh .t)haghurt
bitterly criticized the ,wor activity of the yr Ian Legation
in London, the meueneee of Leinister ,,rnanazi aria his
failure to conauot prop andfor Syria and the _Arab cause0
eoement3ag today on -enerial z:epeurs letter, tehat;euri
censures ..ceaanOite step in rushier, to his friends parsb-
for d'feedinr. hiu in Syriao
.;i2,1v1'S ,,X)N1reRe,UCh4
Aifah: At a press conference held on keb, 6th, Premier
'Am stated tne following:
la Currency neeptiations with Erance have ended successfully
The agreuteent will; he signed today' at 11 a.ia. (Yob 7th) at
the office of the Yinance..ednister, and will later be ,
submitted to Pan lament
2. Tal.rs wite the TAPLIfle for amending the cireellent have
ended by concluding new sub-agroaLents0
30 The 'eyrian Gov't received an invitation Iron Dr. Bunch?
to partieipate.in the ehodes talks between Egypt and the
Sews, end has ae4ea for moreelarifications, The Liediator
dele3ated his legal advisor who will arrive shortly here
with all the required details and clarifications0
40 Discussions are beinc conducted by the 4rab Governments9
representatives in Cairo for the purpose of arriving to
an understa &ding on the current questions. H.L. Lutfi
al haffar, our representative in these discuesions, is
reporting to us regularly0
5. No discussions have been conducted between Syria and
ludland for the conclusion of any treaty,
6.. iJiscussions are being uonducted with: some 4estern
countries for tno conclusion of econorlic agreerients,
70- In answer to a question whether- byria will participate
in President
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areas, he said thvt Syria has not received an invitation
in this rospeot
11,16 azita:
FARDOS: SAIGON Alan Ladd,
Veronica Lake,
.DUNIAg HAALET Laurence Olivier-
(Eagle Lion) Vivian Leigh,
ALRAM: Sone; of Love Paul Henreid
(MGM) Catherin Hepburn
gol?ert Walker
DIDIaSE(,, Tamorr vs Is Forever Orson Wells
?s.09...se,Pnw.7.,"
Claudette Colbert
George Brent.
4-J0 J ES/alet.
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ling is Rn infrTmal digest -)17 rxaterial. frvm
ne wny to 1-e sorsidered es en r,ffisiel trar
nor ,IttrThuted to tne Lq,gation.
(For( szLek us.& max)
1u1GLST, 17, 1949.
14.65PAPII;RS hgVIE4gOL
Alif Al kayha', Al Yasr, Al Baled, Al Alam
al itifah, Al Insha', Al Nazir Al Shebat), Al Duha,
and (11.
SCANDAL Of Tiig
In its campaign against the Muhafiz of Oamascust
Amir Bahjat al-Snahabi? Al Inaba? accused him of having sold
in the free market the hard currency which he obtained from
the .ioreign gxchange Office to cover the expenses of his
journey to gurope therfA)y benefitting LS. 8,0000
Muhafiz S.,ahabi then issued a clarification of this
accusation in wilich he states that he obtained from the
Yoreign exchange Office an amount in sterling euivalent
to the advance granted him by the Treasury of the Muhafaza
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and thet he exchanged the sterlingfor dollar currency
Aelee is mere'remiliar in*.te countries he was going. to,
other than Britain. then he chand his mind, the Muhariz
uent on to said he ,A,is coipu.ii tu reimburse the auvance
ranted fro,a the Lroasury of Le"Leeefaza, add 'whereas the
iluht..,faza deals 0,12y in L.Jyrin euri.enoy, the .1uhallz
e.ecnanged dollar ourronc/ Into 6yrien one and reimbursed
the advance. The proouoas anounting to more than 13.3,000,
the Itihariz nointsd cat, he r?:served for his intended
journey next speleL: Le huror:e, for 'which he eould not claim
any advance free the exehnee ?Moe.
To-day, In2.42J eeecribierithis clarification as
"rage,ed", writes the folloeing in p rt:
You claim that the .5_6(rJ of your trip to Europe was
eostponed until next spring and tilt you kept the proceeds
of your. transaction of Lard currenuy for inat journeY0
This is a terrible eoehvstication! The Conference of
,
Chiefs of Municipelitieeeas convened in the,schedulCd time,
and it is not known rhetner your journey was postponed or.
cuncelled, Yet, if we supepee tirat you sept the proceeds'
of your transaction for a future journey', are you confident
tliat- your a.ppointment as Muhariz is eternal? Is it not
possible Kin-t youeeill sooner ? Or later either be dismissed
or resign? The, who has guaranteed eternity to your. life?
If you (die, uftwe'tny yeer, or be eismieSed from your ?
distinguished position, thee wno Would reimburse tie
differeee unich you have obtained from the Exchange..Offiee?
TairLIN.:; 4k41) 141uNzT.iRY
All papers publisheci this morning the text of the Franco-
Liyrian iConetary eetreeiltent and the TerLINE e.greament.
el Kifuhg Copies or the "IYM.) uereealent have been distributed
yesterday Feb, 16, morning to ell the deputies with
explanations of the motives, to be studied durin.e the vacation
and discussed in the Aireil meetilee of the Parliament,
Speer :eerie eletAnari had requested verioue parties
the Natieealist, eepabliean, and tne lieeple's, to charge
four neell-)ra in addition to three from the Indepeedents
thus foreLe; 15 .lember committees to study the tireeAF:nts.
%,hen the ;,:;rtioe did not nolAqate their reeresentative8
the pear announoed in yeztc5rday'i, (Fob. 16) m(3E:tin : that
he referred the ,:ceerleht'i to the Committees The
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zcono,dict Judiciary, dlItt-4 , to stuuy find report.
Al .tlifah: haviT1,,; studied the tx c the .tgreem, ith
the T,\.011N.a one cannot help xoolizih the extent-?the
profits w;dento country 1Ii attain. In addition to
trio cc,L.002idatioh 02 our )cono,,y, the .,1greement will ensur.,
Epiplo:.aent to taouana:..3 of our ;,.orkere0
hoo th ti:i reeent **Joh hos reached its
fihti stae nd roretred to tloa Phrlia.,:ents will be
carefully StddiUU anJ, ap,yove, 1,1 the lisht of the Gover.nment's
reports anu tlJe couJtry's inter:Jsts ,,entioned there.
C,IWY Li3 OflIi
AL Adfah: Gandy arid 'eats shop's and factories in Daziascus
have lwAncb,;:d yesterday feb. les a strike a,winst tae
ljanistrif of xinance's hi,gh taxs on su;ar and the in
price,3 betiAe.:n yr l ,And ?Ietaaon, which hoe en3ouruged
smugglin betIveen the two countries. They called on the
Prosidant of the itepublic and pros,nted to hit thAr case')
Al i;ifah: r. Yahya :13 Sh,rif, forflor idructor of the iress
and 1-ropaanoas .nd a senior of:ioial of tne ?inistry of
lorein ffairso has r.:turneo to the Gaitll frola a
visit to _curls in secondL,ont h ti yrian Gov't to .11Air
,Ls:f .ibuu3lul., the Ya.anite representative at the
Uh session.
.11:.,.1.D.33I0N Ox Niu?1 CU:R.LENCY:
Atl Nast: The idea fox the .emission of a new currency is
ripening considerably. n officiul of the i4iniatry of
Yinanee has told our reporter th t the project now under
preparation would be subtaitted by the end of the next
week to the Uouncil of-.4inisters for approval and reference
to Parliament.
The. projected ,iytian cuttchcy At41.11 be based on: Golit
? bah notes, and silver coins. The golden pound will include
4.055.3.2 sran.s or gold on hien the L;vrif.:n currency will
he based as specifiea by. the Intern..tional :.7konetury Yund. ?
The Syrian
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The STI-L-la dinar will be divided Into u thousand unit
eaci, to be cA.leu piustr, Ban notes will be. Or 1u0....
pist(_)r pieco wit purchasi:w; power in the lyrian ?
re)ublic,
TTO UH!ht.i.z,0 431(
Al Naqr: Three Italian. AgxicJiturists called on the iAinister
of Agriculture and offered for sale a nu:0er of -tractors, ?
and rice-seeds at .cheap prices.
Our reorter larns t.it an usreeldent.,hus been reached
for this Italian. fir;r1 to. send to tractors and other spare
parts for test, and ton oc :ice -seeds fox experi;Lental
purposes in the SToian. soil.
-11'11;B. 16 .;,.h....,TING?
Parliament continued the debate of 1949 budget?
It approved article 30 Ihlich authorized tile Government '
"to dislaiss the surplus civil sorvants until Aprilo"
1)riALe iiniser pronised to consider the status and tne
effioiency or the au)loyee before oischarge, and vithout ny
partiality s to Ills persondlit] o- yIrty affiliation.
also apeu ve rt.le 33 ;hi oh teJ.lin;lted
tie dele;ation of Lt,A6unts to :;1"tudj in foreign univerities.
Tie 'oudgets Ltic ahu the ,cost and
TelegraoL Deprt-ent a16o a Troved ,Itnout an;r objections6
karlia;ient adjou2nod the xeoUnz until ,larch 5, 1949A
;latarday, 5:u0 p.mo
AEFAIRS
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si
.BulaTte has labelled as untrue the nets
. cci*igated
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oriinutea from Tel ..viv to the effect tilt u UN Observo.
tL,ere accused the L,yrian itrtillery of opun1ng4h1e'on
UN ziane.
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Easrt The refu,3(.3es from Galilee residents in
.!,rld Lebanon have :let an;i unanLaously agreed to entrt the
iyriwGoverniaent it the cOuveyuile of their request to the
Conciliation L-00J.EASSi011 to cede the Galilee disti:Ict to the
,rfab portioxl ir viaw of the fact th.?.t 97.5c/10 of tne inhabitants
are ,,rah and. 65(io of the land is _arab property. 41 note in
this respect is nrepared ,to 1e suhaitted to the;yrian
Govermaant shortly?
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The followinp.; is an infdrria:;. digest of rlaterial frfin the 1,7)0E11 ilrabid Prods,
-cInd is in ne wsy to 1-e oons-;.dored as on offioial trardlEition. It should
at
ho quoted nor ittributed to the .LPgation.
/49.A_111z
PRII;SS "UN4La, F4.1)161 la, :49 19490
vi4C,Mem0fitif ........ oNs.
RLVil;.(1,1):
Alif Ba 9, Nasr,. Al Fayna, Barada, tl Kifih t1 Inshav
1. 'Alatao 1 abas, Al yyam, Al Nazir9 l Dalado
1:jhabab9 z1 jabal and .c1l Duhan
ravc.4so,..00001.4
ARAB Ak2AIRS0
ji AUG to?T.A.Nell, TU CU,'1,t;;WICA:
Al Kifah: The ?IEEE; hus released a router's des)atch
datelihed 1)a .sou to Z:ne effect th.tt five Arab states have
a0Copteu invitation to Rhodes conference with the .'"esIAJs
1P!h1ch iJr Isunche had called foro
The cuble also quotes a responsible rab in DamAseus
as statint, tnrt this decision was tallon in Cairo, that the
five .t,rab 6tutes are: 6yria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yaman, and
6aeudi A2.hia, and that nesot1:4tions would be conducted
under tn(, f011Owing cOnditiOns to be fulfilled by the
Zionists:
10 To
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1, To if,uarantea the retUrn of the Palestinian reDgees
to th1r omes.
20 To 6uarantee net to..filak,e-any alterations to the statue
of the city of Jey-usaleia until the recoJarlendations of the
COirieS OUt 0
The ,t.rmistice taL?Ls beteoh the6e .6.rah L;tates and Israel
to tatt.e pLice us soon us the present ;jewish-.6gyptian tal:67.s
ore overo
A,nother Aeuter cable in(licates t4.,t Mr 'if cii ui/i
rirlue.-;,,daister to Iraq huo. arrived in Dana;:$ous carrying to
. the L',?,1Tiu?I:Tesidolat a .7.1e2Sfat,3 fren. the Iraqi iient?
?
?-??,
? t' -v* r;
&ifl rospoble stateah has told our reext.-,x? tLt
amotiutic)cs between Jroi-.1t Britain for the 20,-
lizforent of relaticas.is audervyay? This same source.
believes that the- tovermie4n:t will issu-,:? a co',-,iuhiqu(5. rearair.1427,
these negctiations,,
on..Loavin t,he io:i?olE:n Office 'after ihte'rvieecl
the 6-.ritish inister :?ienipotentiar:: and others for the
1.'esicei-ley to confer v it tLa Presicieht of .the
ElniEteT. exprsseci his astonishlaoht about the press ,
orts about tal.s with :dritain'for cOnC Lnagreell.ents
thesii all as unfounded. ,ts to the '6yrif'In reply to
Duhche's invitntion to?Rhodet the??riP:ie 1,AnisteT said 1.e
.as still waitiu!; for the results of the :,,y-ptian Thecies?
talks,
0
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. ..stoT three-',Neelcs laission. in Cairoo.Vice-ptikor ?
.of the 6yriah Parlent Lutfi all. hal far returned in'Dardescs?
yray o.rW afte a littlo rest reporteci to the .11'resident
on h1 J3
Lutti. ,I.A;1 a stutoont to our reportr exprosset
:In the Cairo t ci%ad said tfl./.1t "the ,,trub Leaue
colriplte success, unu it will
meat 1.71 'Lho ziont
Lutfi.
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. Lutfi Bey added thet in ad...Ation to Dr. Bunche's invitation
to ahodes conferences,, the Arab League-representetives in Cairo
discussed the stands to be adopted with regard to the three-
member conciliation Commission
the exception of Transjordan," Lutfi esey continuedo
"the .erub Liovernelents have agreed to abstain from replying
to Uunehes invitation before the results of the Egyptian
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Jewish Armistice talks in Rhodes appear." lie also assured
our reporter that neither the .tertile Crescent project nor any
other similar projects hud been raised in Cairo
keuotiw.!, informed Governmentel sources, our reporter
states tivat in the arab Leau eleetine next eionta, the
ineeividuul attit.lue o. TJ would be discussed and decision
to the effect woeld be tul.eno
CUi1IC4TI. U.i eOrracTIe;S:
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Syriae pro9osul reuaereendia!, the eonfiscation
of all the Jewish ero)erties in the Arab koountries in
retaliation with the similar Jewish decision to confiscate
all the Arab properties in ralestines has boon trunsmitteu to
the Lebanese Govern,eent by the Arab Leagueo
The question 11a been raised at Various occasion in
the joint eyro-Lebanese meetings, and believably Insinuated
to Ambassador Griffis as foielin3 a source of revenues for
the relief of the ralestinian refugees?
peezieLeer :q,UoVeri:LTLY'S
Nesr: The palestine Ilberation Committee has announced
that the .cresident of the aepublic has contributed two
monthly salaries for the eurehase Of coal end other heating
material for distribution amoni3 the refugees who, the
Presideet was inforied, suffered froze coldo
IC .4: Y: S
id _plazi.r This paper editorially refers to the recent
interview between the Americ./ Secretor " ate and the
Syrian lAnister Ilenipotenilary in ,ash ngton and writes
the following:
It is
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It is to be pointed out In this connection that Syria,
among all the e.rab States, enjoys a special position as far
ae the US is coneerned. his is because the americans have,
since the end of eorla ear II, lookeu eith suspicion to the
British plans in the ,trab Jeast and some trab States attitudes
towards them. If emerican stateseee rea3ly believe in the
total independuece of Syria, it mieeht haepen teet the
Government of .iashingtoe would try to aeproech tee Near Zest
through the independent Letato of Syria, unuffecteu b, eritise
policy and .Uritish influeece. It is not unlieely that this
wish of eenerica which may be related to the secret struggle
between the US and Great Britain ebout ,ealestine ena Petro3eumo
lead the US Gov't0 to approach the Syrian representative with
the Middle least future affairs. If only there wee a true
Syrian policy, this intervie ,ou2u mean something moee,
and Syriuri statesmen 'eoald have seized this opeortunity to get
some benefits for syria and VO2 the general arab question.
But, has Syrian policy reaceee such a staze of maturity as
tp make it able to seize eueh oeeortunities? It is peieful
that all the ineieente re3etive to the Countryie policy and
netional affairs do not receive the attention of the yr?i
statesmen. So, eill the Serion euliey eve e nave the -
ieitietive to benefit Or international opportunities?"
DOLebefIO eeFeihb.
P.teeLleeeelere TO Be 111...EX BUSY:
Al Neer: It almost certain that theeifavernelent will
refer to-morrow (Jeb. 15) to the Speeeer u Office in
Parliament two bills for approvel by the house The first
is the Franc:a-Syrian Currency f&greereent Bill, and the second
is the bill embodying the Tapline Goncession, the paper %
states, and informs that the two bills will immediately be
refeered to the competent committees for consideration erd
recommendation to the House.
An official spoe.esean of the iiinistry of vinance
assorted yesteraay to press reporters that the two bills'
formalities in the said ministry heve been completed, end that
they would be referred to Parliament durins this week.
.b.ND OF P33 P.eRLIe.ILNT CRISIS:
el eelbas: 6peaker of Parliament leiris bey al-Ahuri sumuoned
on 1riday9 lee-be-110 the ?ehiofs of the 'Press syndicate and
conferred with them about theorists which ook place betv.oen
Par/iamont and the Press following the caipaign waged by
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deputies atsHiust the publishers. He then delivered to them
a letter reeinoing thee,. that 'we are confronted with two
feeedeens ;.Lich 'toe have to respect: the l'reeuom of the press
and the freeaom of tee deputies. Our constitution provides
in ,,rticle 17 for tne freedom of the press within the limits
of the law, Lieu in Article 58 for the non-prosecution of
deputies for oolnion expressed in the house." karis Boy's
letter then went en to state *Let the coelpaign egaietet the
house by the p.A:iess,aorl ie not justified and to appeal to
thevi to satiefy teemselveu with what they had already
written, tnereby terminating the crisis th t ensuet between
Parliument und the Press0
The Press Syndicate accepted Faris Bey's aopeal and
issued u communique .in which it Oellee on ell tne papers
to rene their cooperation with Parliament "in the limits
of national interests, enich the oyrian Press pleces above
all considerations."
4LT I ehel(4L JA)Licr:
aveem w.ratemmteagmaawmamea.r.rt
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Al Kifah: bditor Amin &id places the Government in front
of the alterneeives before recommendine; a true foreign
policy:
10 isiqpier join in tee.14dule i,;astern block and coopvrete
with the Allees, just R8 the Turks end the Greees, our nteighbors
are doing.
2, extend a hend to itussie and cooperate with her by
concluding 4efense pact.
3