Iraq was stricken, and with it the Arab world, by the grievous blow that befell it in the death of the late Queen Aliya, mother of His Majesty King Faisal II. For some months past she had been in critical condition, and she had returned to her homeland not long before. Her Majesty was thirty-three years of age.
Her funeral was held in the presence of vast crowds, and after a brief prayer before the tomb where rest the remains of the late King Faisal I and of King Ghazi, her husband, officers of the army bore the great departed into the burial chamber and laid her coffin beside the coffin of King Faisal.
Mourning has been proclaimed at the royal court for six months.
'The Woman's Voice' offers its condolences to the royal family and to the two peoples of Iraq and Jordan, and prays God to grant the departed rest in the wideness of His Paradise.
The Executive Committee of the Women's Organizations in Lebanon held a meeting under the chairmanship of Mrs. Laure, wife of the notable Mr. Georges Tabet. It deliberated on the state to which public security in the country has come, in the light of what happened during the holiday season, and then wired to the head of the government, in his capacity as Minister of the Interior, the telegram whose text follows, sending a copy of it to the bureau of the Presidency:
To His Excellency the President of the Council of Ministers, the honorable Minister of the Interior:
The Executive Committee of all the women's organizations in Lebanon is appalled at the state of disorder that has prevailed in the country, and therefore comes before the men in power in anger and condemnation, holding them alone responsi
ble for what has happened, and for the lives destroyed through the encouragement given the mob in the use of firearms. The Lebanese woman regards this conduct as shameful: it has set us back generations and placed us in the ranks of the barbarous nations. And woman is appalled at the exploitation of religion in a rivalry to display influence — religion being innocent of this disgraceful business. The Lebanese woman therefore demands most emphatically the enforcement of the law forbidding
the use of weapons of every kind, on any occasion whatever and by anyone whomsoever. She holds this to be her right as a citizen, and out of concern for the safety of lives that have been held cheap in the pursuit of personal ends.
The Executive Committee of all the Lebanese organizations:
Laure Georges Tabet, Ibtihaj Kaddoura, May Fayyad, Najla Saab, Jamal Karam Harfush, Laure Nasr, Ellen Rihan, Emily Fares Ibrahim.
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