LEBANESE INCIDENT
REGARDED AS CLOSED COMMITTEE OVERCOMES GREAT DIFFICULTIES (Rec. 5J.45 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 25. The Lebanon incident may be re-o-arded as closed, says Renter's diplomatic correspondent. The President of Lebanon and its Government and Parliament are all again working. Internal peace reigns. _ Full credit is being paid in London to the tact and resource with which General Catronx handled the crisis. M. Rene Massigli, speaking during a "foreign policy debate at the Consultative Assembly, in Algiers, said: "The achievement of Lebanese independence will be the joint work of France and Lebanon. It is unnecessary for any Power to act as an intermediary." General de Gaulle, winding up the debate, said: " Certain friendly Powers tend to be dubious a'bout tlie_ French Committee of National Liberation, but the committee had great difficulties with which to contend, and it was anxious to maintain its alliances. The committee i*. in fact, the Government of the French Republic,"
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Evening Star, Issue 25032, 26 November 1943, Page 3
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154LEBANESE INCIDENT Evening Star, Issue 25032, 26 November 1943, Page 3
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