grant our children mutual understanding, peace, and harmony."

The members of the Red Cross invited Mrs. Salma Sayegh to deliver an address on Radio Lebanon on Mothers' Day in honor of their venerable president. She said:

Madam President of our Red Cross: I hastened, the moment I was invited, to take part, in the name of Lebanese women's letters, in the celebration of a day held for you — the day you are consecrated Mother of Lebanon for this blessed year, and the day you receive a precious decoration from His Holiness, the happy bearer of the cross of the Lord of Mercy and Love.

I say on this memorable day of yours — and it is one of Lebanon's finest days — that I have accompanied your labors in our country for thirty years, that is, since the branch of the Red Cross was founded, while we were still in the era of tutelage.

My testimony, though it comes humble after the testimony of the throne of Rome and after the testimony of the mothers of America, is in any case a testimony from Lebanon, from this shore whose sands were trodden by the feet of the Lord of all who call for understanding and harmony. Before this sea, our sea, the Lord stood — no doubt of it — stood two thousand years ago, the evening breezes playing with his hair and the roar of the waves echoing his voice. From here went forth the call to gentleness and to the unity of this world. And from here I hope you will carry our cries — heavenly Providence having opened a road for you — to the ears of those who preside over the fortunes of this crucified humanity.

And if we missed your attending Mothers' Day in New York and carrying to those people the voice of the mothers of Lebanon, we shall not miss your sending that voice, resounding, to the responsible world circles.

Yes, my gracious friend: it is the Lord of the Cedars who smooths the road for you and opens the doors before you. It is the Lord of Lebanon who cleaves the horizons before a mother from Lebanon.

Go, madam, and lay before the women of America the injustice that has made your heart bleed, and the hearts of the mothers of Lebanon. Tell them that the driving from their homes of seven hundred thousand of God's creatures — through no sin they committed — is a black, heinous crime with margins and trailing consequences.

Go, madam, into the circles of the Israelite mothers in New York and warn them, with this endearing gentleness of yours, of the dangers of this violence and this dispossession. Tell them that thorns do not yield grapes, that injustice brings explosion, and that the Mother of Lebanon, when she asks justice for the dispossessed, does so only to avert a catastrophe, and to put out the fire of a volcano blazing

today in the hearts of wretched people who long — like all people — to live with dignity in their homelands, and who refuse the shame of begging and the humiliation of asking for alms.

I say to you — you who believe in God! — it is in God's hand to smooth before Lebanon — before a mother from Lebanon — the way to a singular and great deed in the cause of peace and love.

Go forward, my friend: you may succeed where men have failed.

"The Woman's Voice"