FUTURE OF SYRIA
INDEPENDENT STATE
POLICY OF FREE FRENCH
RUGBY, July 1
General de Gaulle's headquarters in London state that the Syrian Government has published a letter from the Free French leader in the Middle East, General Catroux, addressed to the Syrian Prime Minister which confirms the results reached by meetings during which discussions took place on the different aspects of Syrian independence. .
General Catroux stated that Free France was naturally anxious to hasten the time when an independent arid sovereign regime became a concrete reality and when a FrenchSyrian treaty would be signed.
To have such a regime accepted and such a treaty signed it was necessary that the whole of the French territories actually in the Levant should be delivered from the Mandate regime. This would only be so when the Allied Powers had occupied the whole country and brought freedom in that way to all the, Syrian population.
He therefore asked the Syrian population to let him govern for the time being, such a commission ending whan Syria was wholly occupied.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1941, Page 9
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