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Between the World Wars France kept the Levant States under troubled control, but seven months ago they revolted. Last week the Quai d'Orsay bowed to the inevitable. France and Britain simultaneously announced an agreement to quit Syria and the Lebanon together, on dates to be discussed this week. Thereafter, if forces are needed to establish security in Syria and the Lebanon, UNO will supply them...
France remained impassive. Without abrogating its League of Nations mandate, France had recognized the de facto independence of the Levant states in the dark days of 1943. Now, the Quai d'Orsay wished to buttress its position with a treaty of alliance and friendship giving France strategic rights (air fields in Syria, naval bases in The Lebanon), economic privileges (preferential tariff treatment), cultural advantages (French to be a compulsory school language). The Lebanese and Syrians are willing to compromise only on the first point...
...Gare d'Orsay reception center, a bas-relief of women with arms flung wide illustrates the legend Salut les copains (Welcome, Pals). Under a so-foot-high triumphal arch of crossed Allied flags are other bas-reliefs, each with a two-word legend illustrating the new-found (and realistically French) freedoms; the second word in each case is librement (freely) and the verbs are: jouer, travailler, parler, aimer, dormir, manger, boire and respirer (play, work, speak, love, sleep, eat, drink and breathe...
...firmly refused to make revisions before San Francisco-whither, as a result, France will now go as a guest, not as a sponsor. Just to make matters pikestaff-plain. Soviet Ambassador Alexander E. Bogomolov elucidated Russian realism v. French realism for Diplomat Maurice Dejean of the Quai d'Orsay: "France should not try to sing above her range...
...exclusion from Yalta. General de Gaulle, who once said that the Rhineland must be French "from one end to the other," agreed to let the Belgians share in its occupation and to have an outlet on the Rhine. Brussels was pleased with the arrangement. The Quai d'Orsay was pleased with itself: "France," said an unofficial spokesman, "is thinking again in terms of resuming her old role of supporting the smaller powers...