867N.01/1243: Telegram
The Consul General at Beirut (Palmer) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 3—9 a.m.]
Beirut, Damascus and other Lebanese and Syrian manifestations on the occasion of anniversary of Balfour Declaration were kept well under control by the authorities and involved no American citizens so far as the Consulate General is aware although successive press advices of recent Washington pronouncements with reference to [Page 981] Palestine and the Jewish National Home have been regretfully received in Moslem and Christian circles alike and have aroused considerable anti-American feeling among students and other Arab nationalist elements which Beirut authorities considered sufficiently serious yesterday to warrant the maintenance, without any request on the part of the Consulate General, of detachments of gendarmes at the entrances to the consular premises and in neighboring streets. Despatch follows.