890E.00/217: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé at Damascus (Farrell)
5. Please inform Syrian authorities, replying to your query in Beirut’s 316, November 17, 1 p.m., that this Government promptly and firmly expressed to the French Committee of National Liberation at Algiers its complete disapproval of the repressive acts of the French authorities in Lebanon and its expectation that the Committee would take prompt steps to restore the duly elected Government of the Lebanese. Republic and to implement the solemn promises of independence given to the Lebanese people in 1941 in the name of the French National Committee.