ness — that I deny her the right to be a fighting element when the need arises; for in her being a fighting element lies the cohesion of her social and her national personality alike.

The sum of it is that there is no need for woman to slide into the pitfalls of the sudden leap on the plea that we have become men's equals; such things do not arise at all where the enjoyment of political rights is concerned. And everything of this kind — the kind of formalities — must keep to its place until historical evolution takes its natural course.

It is a hurried word I wished to address to the Lebanese woman on this occasion, so that matters may settle into their proper place, and so that the discussion of this cause may not be put on the basis of silly conditions and considerations that lie at the margin of the subject's essence. Its essence concerns the question of the woman citizen's understanding of her duties and her rights.

As for her duties — and they are duties that apply to the man citizen as they apply to the woman citizen — they rest, from the standpoint of principle, on the basis of her being an element of good in this homeland: an element of building, not an element of demolition, an element that takes its inspiration, in all it does and in all the activity it expends, from the interest of this dear homeland. From the practical standpoint, her understanding of her duties as a citizen imposes upon her respect for the laws and adherence to their texts; so let her work from this day to remove a hateful mentality that still rules this country — the mentality that regards the violation of the laws and the making light of them as proof of influence and leadership. She must realize that in the forefront of the qualities of the true citizen stands his care to keep within the bounds of the laws standing in the country in which he lives,

while knowing that it is also his duty to work so that these laws come to be as fully conformable as possible to the interest of the citizens; so he takes care that none reach the hall of legislation but

those persons in whom sincerity of resolve to serve the causes of the nation may be expected.

And so, if the woman citizen wishes today to demonstrate that she understands her duties with a serious, deep understanding, and that she feels the sense of soli-darity among the members of one homeland — that solidarity which is the great pillar in the existence of nations — then she must work with insistence and steadfastness for the coming of a law that acknowledges her illiterate sister's

explicit right to be a full citizen, satisfying every condition.

As for the rights of the woman citizen, they require first of all a correct grasp of them on the part of the legislators, so that the laws are framed on the basis of securing these rights to her and to every citizen.

The field here is wide and ramified, so that

plunging into it and entering into its details appears impossible in these few minutes. Yet we can point out that in the forefront of

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