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official; as the head of a tribe you/they were imprisoned and equal hanged; and as
the violence and looting had spread on the peaceful country. [the Footnote:
From when the above some American press was written you/he/she has done the chronicle of it of many
atrocities committed in Lebanon. The execution of leader and the
I stop complete of the mountains from the result Turkish authorities
in the hungry one of eighty thousand Lebanese. The French Government has
Turkey warned through the American ambassador that the Turks will be
kept responsible for their actions.]
I could not help asking me to the errors of the Allies. If theirs had
understands the situation in Palestine and Syria, as differently this
be probable that war would have gone to end! Lebanon and Syria would have raised a
one hundred thousand select men, if the Allies were disembarked in Palestine. The
Lebanon would heroically have fought for his/her independence as as it did the
Belgians. Also the Arabic population would have given the welcome one the Allies as
liberators. But alas!
With a heart saddened me undertaken my trip to Beirut. My arrival was a
cheerful surprise to my sister. A lot of sad things were happened from when she had
last sees me. During my imprisonment she had suffered from tortures, not
knowing what would happen to me, and now that she saw me alive she cried
from the happiness. You told me as kind you/he/she had been treated by President her
Beatitude, of the Protestant and Syrian university and of all the good things the
university had done.
That that a to bless the university was for the people of Beirut! Many
unlucky people were saved by jail and the works through the
President's intervention Bliss. He never got tired to make service,
personal and marvelous service. But alas, also his/her influence and the power it started
to lower. The American prestige in the country was broken, and the
Turkish Government didn't respect the American flag anymore. An order
published from Constantinople it required that the official language of the
university is Turkish instead of the English, and Turkish officers equalize challenged