FRANCE DENOUNCED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 135, 9 June 1945, Page 7

FRANCE DENOUNCED

ARAB LEAGUE STATEMENT

LONDON, June 3L

The Arab League, at the meeting of the council in Cairo, charged France tonight'with creating the Levant crisis. "The French . Government attacked. Syria and the Lebanon, and it is responsible for all that has happened— murders, demolitions, and losses," the league's statement says. "The fact that there are French forces in Syria and the Lebanon is against the rights, Tsovereignty, and independence of the two republics arid exposes their lands and people to horrible incidents similar to those which, have recently occurred. The presence of the French, forces causes permanent tension in, the relations between France and the two Arabic republics, and this tension extends to the rest of the Arab countries, thus embarrassing the. war";;"effort against Japan. * 7--"For these reasons the council of the. Arab League confirms the Syrian and Lebanese demand for the' withdrawal of all-French forces from the two republics, and takes it for granted*that no other foreign forces will remain in the Levant." In accordance with clause six of its constitution, h was stated, the-league had decided to take the necessary, measure*, to resist French aggression and co-ordinate the necessary efforts, "in the light of probable international developments," to help the Syrians and Lebanese to achieve their .-■■ aim"'; Of indeoendence and sovereignty and*. th« withdrawal of foreign troops; '