juveniles, working for them with all the love and experience she possesses.

As for Miss Abou Nader, after practicing the art of midwifery at the French Maternity Hospital, she studied at the Lebanese School for Social Training, obtained the official diploma, and specialized in the care of delinquent juveniles; her experience in this field has proved most useful for the work entrusted to her.

As for Mr. Moubarak Aoun, the Union's lawyer, he made two journeys to Europe to acquaint himself with the laws relating to juveniles of every kind. In 1948 he visited the institutions and courts in France, particularly in Paris, and Grenoble, Saint-Étienne, Marseille, and Lyon. He then trav-eled again in 1950 to Paris and London, where in the two capitals he studied the organization of the juvenile courts and confined his work to them for a time; he then studied the Directorate of Supervised Education, la Direction de l'Éducation surveillée, attached to the Ministry of Justice in France, and the administration of home and family, the "Home Office," in Britain. He returned with wide experience and valuable plans, which he laid before the Union, and part of which he published.

From all the foregoing it becomes clear to you, esteemed Director General, that our Union was the first to concern itself with the social problem in Lebanon, and that for this reason, therefore, you ought to concern yourselves with it and supply it with the financial assistance it cannot do without — especially as it performs a semi-governmental social work.

You have in this the example of what takes place in France and Britain, for instance, where we find the official authorities plainly

encouraging private undertakings and nourishing them with money. And if we look at the institutions intended for convicted juveniles, we find that the number of official ones falls far below the private: (160 private institutions against 10 governmental, in France; and 113 private against 29 governmental in England.) This with the observation that the French and British authorities bear the expenses of all the private institutions.

For that reason, I do not think it too much to ask for this year an additional sum which would enable

me to appoint a new assistant to attend to supervised liberty, Liberté surveillée.

I address this request to you in the certain knowledge that you have always considered, and still consider, our Union an essential element for informing the mind of the court about the social circum-stances of juveniles, and that you regard it as a social agency that can be relied upon.

With this, hoping that you will exert every effort to grant our request, I extend to you my abundant thanks and those of the Union.

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