On Monday afternoon, the 20th of this month, the American Information Office held a press conference and a cocktail party for the Lebanese press in honor of Dorothy Thompson, the well-known American journalist and writer, who is at present visiting the Arab countries to study the condition of the refugees and to correspond for the American newspapers and maga-zines on the affairs of this Arab East. She has been sent for this purpose by the International Relief Committee.

Dorothy Thompson is visiting the Arab lands for the second time, having paid her first visit in 1945. She has a 'column' carried by dozens of the great newspapers in America, besides her abundant articles, which reach millions of readers. She is considered one of the most successful journalists in America, and her writ-ings have an influence in the directing of public opinion.

Would you believe it, dear lady reader of "The Woman's Voice," that the virtuous newspaper "Al-Amal," bearer of the banner of the defense of woman's rights, still lives in one valley while woman's right lives in another?

This friendly paper took from the special issue of "The Woman's Voice" Mr. Salah Labaki's study of Mr. Said Akl's diwan, and did not spare so much as a single "wink" toward the source.

And yesterday it returned to the self-same path, publishing the reportage "The Destruction of the Lebanese Village" in its entirety — God forgive us! — no: it did delete from it one sentence from which it might be understood that "The Woman's Voice" was the author of the reportage.

The matter would be easier to bear were it not that Sheikh Pierre Gemayel — who holds so lofty a place in the regard of the Lebanese Women's League — stands behind the newspaper "Al-Amal." Come now, Sheikh!

It is worth mentioning that Dorothy Thompson is married and that her present name is Mrs. Kopf, and that her former husband is Sinclair Lewis, the famous novelist and author.