NO SIGN OF IMPROVEMENT
ARAB LEAGUE COUNCIL TO MEET (Rec. 11 a.m.) RUGBY, May 27. The situation in the Levant, where Syria-Lebanon and French interests are in conflict, shows no sign of improvement according to Cairo messages. The Arab League, of which chief members, has called a meeting of the League Council for June 4. Azam Bev, secretarv of the League, is qu6ted as saying that French-Senega-lese and other troops had adopted a threatening position. They had cut communications between the large towns and stationed themselves at the outlets of those towns. Armoured cars
had been grouped at places where they were in prominent view, and machine guns fead been placed on rooftops. After repeating earlier hopes' that Franco would adopt a friendly attitude, Azam Bey said: 'The Arab League Council will meet in Cairo in the first week in June. I hope the meeting will find a way to security, peace, and human co-operation.
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Evening Star, Issue 25495, 28 May 1945, Page 5
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