867N.01/8–544: Airgram
The Diplomatic Agent and Consul General at Beirut (Wadsworth) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 12—8 a.m.]
A–36. Reference my telegram no. 154 of August 2, 3 p.m.4 regarding the resolution on the Palestine question voted at the July 25 sitting of the Lebanese Chamber of Deputies.
[Page 608]A member of the Legation staff obtained from the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on August 1 a copy of the Arabic text of what was stated to be the official text of the resolution in question. It reads, in close translation, as follows:
The Lebanese Chamber of Deputies opposes any move which aims at the establishment of a Zionist National Home in the long-established Arab land of Palestine, for Lebanon considers itself directly threatened by the Zionist menace. The Chamber requests the Ministry to notify the ambassadors of the great Allied Powers of its decision, so that they may be kind enough to transmit this decision to the American, British, and French Governments. The Chamber considers that the principles of the Atlantic Charter are contrary to the idea of turning any part of the Arab Lands into a National Home for Zionism.
The Chamber of Deputies hopes that the Allied Powers will take the side of the Arabs in their just cause, and that they will take note of the feelings of the allied Arab countries.
Copies mailed to Baghdad, Cairo, Damascus, Algiers, Jerusalem and Naples for Murphy.
- Not printed.↩