to study the most suitable ways of bringing the highest authorities to amend the electoral law so that woman may exercise her right in the coming Chamber.

* * *

After this great meeting at the Officers' Club, the women's delegations proceeded to the Presidential Palace, met His Excellency the President, and handed him a second memoran-dum urging His Excellency to be so kind as to refer their first memorandum to the Council of Ministers. And after a frank question put to His Excellency as to whether this memorandum would indeed find its way to the Council, His Excellency answered frankly that he would refer it.

After this visit a press conference was held at the house of Mrs. Laure Tabet, at which Mrs. Emily Fares Ibrahim explained the committee's work, concluding her report with these words:

"Before closing, I should like to say a word in comment on what we have heard repeatedly during this campaign of ours — that woman's efforts and her wakeful-ness, in her capacity as a citizen, ought not to be confined to the question of her equality with man.

Woman, gentlemen, realizes — and must realize fully — that the question of recognizing the prin-ciple of her equality with man is not an end in itself, but a matter of putting things in their proper place: putting the elements in the natural place prepared for them.

We were told in a high quarter that the ordeal that has befallen sister Palestine — and the whole Arab world, of course — and the specter of war hanging over the world were among the causes that delayed woman's cause in Lebanon. Our answer to this is contained in what we have already said: that the question of recognizing the principle of woman's equality with man is nothing other than a matter of putting the elements in the

natural place prepared for them. As for this question being more important than the question of the release of liberties, above all freedom of thought; or the question of woman's equality with man being more important than the problem of the high cost of living sweeping the Lebanese

markets, or more important than the Zionist danger crouching on the Lebanese border to the south, which all but leaves the very existence of Lebanon threatened at every hour; or the question of woman's equality with man being more important than the danger of our homeland falling into the

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