Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1945 — Page 12

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ISLAM FACING TEST IN LEVANT

French Insist on Need to Maintain Protection. By GEORGE WELLER

Times Foreign Correspondent

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NEW DELHI, India, June 29. — | Not alone French imperial policy, | but the political maturity of Islam throughout the world 1s being tested in the Levant. By the behavior of the two infant. Arab republics (Syria and Lebanon) will be judged not only the aspirations to freedom of TransJordania and Mo- i rocco, but also the ¥ responsibility of such.“ faraway Moslem peoples as 40,000,000 crowd-

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ence or dominion status. ; The French do not base their claims in the Mr. "Weller Levant alone on the secret SykesPicot treaty of May, 1916, for division of the Turkish empire. They | merely assert that their right to the spoils in that treaty is as good as that of the British, which have only been partly liquidated in the | qualified independence of Iraq. Claim Moral Basis

‘The French moral claim is: as 12% to 34 “Christian protector of the Levant.” A cultivated and intelligent pro-| GROWING GIRLS French Lebanese like former Pres- WOMEN'S 5 ident Alfred Naccache, who headed | 4 to 9 the Lebanon government from 1941 to 1943, soberly asserts that Lebanon is anfl always has been “a | land of refuge.” Refuge from what? From the Islam of the sword, from the Islam of the holy war, from Christian- | hating, infidel killing Islam. Today's Arab statesmen, who] wear sack suits rather than bur-| nooses, and are lawyers rather than | camel-herders, say that this Islam | is dead." ; They point out that even Saudi Arabia, the home of Wahabite fanaticism, has allowed Americans | to work its oil wells ard American | army pilots to fly the family of Ibn Saud. They say the old dark | Islam is on the defensive, having a | " : w——

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