LEBANON INCIDENT
REGARDED AS CLOSED GENERAL CATROUX’S RESOURCE LONDON, Nov. 25. The Lebanon incident may be regarded as closed, says Reuter's diplomatic correspondent. The President of the 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 Catroux 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 the 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 about the 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 is. in fact, the Government of the French Republic.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25394, 27 November 1943, Page 5
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