Iraq, and all the Arab countries together, celebrated the birthday of His Majesty King Faisal II. On this happy occasion we are pleased to publish something, however brief, about the life of the beloved child King:
"On a smiling dawn of just such a beautiful day, eleven years past, the Queen Mother was delivered of His Highness the infant prince — the child monarch left an orphan little more than four years after His Majesty the present sovereign of Iraq first breathed the breath of life.
Lebanon knew him while he was still in the first five years of his childhood, when he visited Lebanon in 1940 and passed the summer honored among its hills; Lebanon recalled in him the glorious deeds accomplished in the days of his forefathers, and looked upon him with a gaze of hope and expectation.
Her Majesty the Queen Mother and His Highness the Emir Abdul Ilah devote themselves to the upbringing of the child monarch, tending him after the best manner the Hashemite family has followed in rearing its sons. A select company of men of learning, Arab and foreign, see to his instruction and cultivation. At the beginning of this coming summer he will travel to the British capital, where the choicest of teachers have been engaged to school him in foreign languages. Before long the monarch will be crowned and will mount the throne of his ancestors, and we are confident that he will be the best of successors to the best of predecessors."
Lebanon has lately been favored with the visit of two great guests, the Emir Faisal and the Emir Mansour of the House of Saud. It welcomed them most warmly and attended their brief stay with reverence and affection. Grand receptions were held for them at the presidential palace and in other high quarters, and they took their leave of Lebanon with a party they gave at the Hotel Saint-Georges, of the utmost generosity and magnificence. In this picture the reader sees His Excellency the First Lebanese with his great guest, His Royal Highness the Emir Faisal of the House of Saud.
• We are Arabs before we are Muslims, and Muhammad is an Arab before he is a prophet.
• The religions command brotherhood on earth and the following of truth; whoever strives to sow discord between Muslim and Christian is no Arab.
• Poverty is the country's greatest internal enemy, and we must employ all our strength to fight it no less than we fight the strongest enemies abroad.
• Independence is taken, not given.
• We slept for a hundred years, but we did not die; rather we awaited the circumstance that would help us rise and go forth into the field of action, to establish and build up our glory.
• All my reliance is upon the young.
• Just as woman wakes the child from his cradle, so will she wake the nation from its slumber.
• Rule rests either upon love or upon fear, and I want the rule of love to stand over my people.