TEMPORARY CABINET

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 272, 17 November 1943, Page 5

TEMPORARY CABINET

FORMED BY EMILE EDDE

Recd. 9.30 p.m. London. Nov. 16. M. Emile Edde, Lebanese lawyer, has formed a provisional Government in Lebanon composed of seven directors of public services, five district administrators and one each from the office of administrative services and internal security forces. The French appointed M. Edde leader of the temporary Government after the arrest oi the President and others last week. M. Edde in a statement said the first, task of the Government would be to ensure adequate food supplies when the situation is normal again. He would attempt to make the Government more representative of the country’s different political tendencies. In reply to a protest from ‘Nahas Pasha. Egypt’s Prime Minister, regarding French action in Lebanon, the French Committee of National Liberation stated:—“The question is best solved by the Frencii and the Lebanese alone. The matter is well understood by the real friends ol Lebanon.” To this Nahas Pasha replied:—“The fact that the whole world condemns the French action affords the best distinction between the real friends of Lebanon and those who sacrifice truth and justice from selfish motives.”

The political correspondent of the Dai’y Express says i -.r. Harold Macmillan was instructed to protest vigorously to Gen. de Gaulle about the shooting of students outside the British Embassy at Beirut. Mr. Macmillan was told to protest in direct and unmistakable terms.

Ankara radio reports that King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia has joined King Farouk and the Government of Irak in a protest to the French Committee against the events in Lebanon.