The house of the Lebanese Legation in Buenos Aires — capital of Argentina — which the community presented to the country.

when we come back from school? And I take care to be home at that hour, just as I like to supervise the children's supper myself and their preparing of their lessons before I go out for the evening."

(Mrs. Alice has a boy and two girls, their ages ranging between seven and twelve.)

Q — Does what you have said accord with the feeling of native Argentine women and Lebanese women alike?

"The Eastern sentiment shows itself in every woman there, without regard to what nation her origin goes back to or from what branch she descends. I have noticed that this national sentiment appears most of all in the inland towns, where one feels the Lebanese spirit in its fullness. The sons of the community there have kept the Lebanese customs, whether in their homes or in the public clubs they have founded in the capital and the outlying districts; in these clubs the fold gathers, opinions are exchanged, and sentiments mingle, and in them they also celebrate the national holidays and private occasions."

Q — What does the public there concern itself with, besides private business?

"Women and men there concern themselves with local charitable projects, but this does not keep them from also joining in offering help to their own country — I mean by these the Lebanese in the Mahjar. They are ever ready to serve and never slow to help whoever turns to them. Their latest gesture was the grant which I carried with me, in the name of the community in Argentina, to the Lebanese Red Cross society: its amount is five thousand and twenty-five dollars."

Q — And outside Argentina?

"...In both Uruguay and Chile there is a readiness like that of the Argentine people. I should like to mention something here that may please the readers: the schools in these two countries are state schools, and it has become the

custom for some of the communities there to take upon themselves supplying the pupils with whatever clothing or school supplies they need. The school thus helped is given the name of the country of the community that helps it. Lebanon today has a state school bearing its name both in Chile and in Uruguay. The community in each of the two countries concerns itself with offer-ing some assistance to the boy and girl pupils, and I must mention that the Lebanese woman has a large share in this field. At the ceremony at which the name 'the Lebanese Republic' was bestowed on one of the schools of Uruguay, a welcome gesture came from those in charge of it: they taught the boys and girls the Lebanese national anthem, and they sang it in Arabic, a language wholly unknown to them. Of course, when we say a school bears the name of some country, we do not mean that it teaches that coun-try's language, since all the schools are state schools run according to a single official program.

Nor has the giving of Lebanon's name been confined to a few schools only; it has been given to streets in some provinces of Argentina."

Q — Tell us about the young people there, and how they spend their time?

"The young people there have a special passion for sport. After fin-ishing their studies or other work, they make for the many athletic clubs, and the whole people encour-ages them, since they themselves are devoted to sport. You will see thousands of spectators at a foot-ball match, and I like to mention that one of the world-class players in Argentina, a specialist in foot-ball, is descended from a Lebanese father — and my elder son came to love this game because of its champion of Lebanese origin!...

The government concerns itself with the young and offers them all manner of assistance, just as it concerns itself with children,

(see photo) Mrs. Alice al-Nahhas presents the check, the Lebanese community's gift to the Red Cross. This took place on the day of the gathering at the Presidential Palace, in the presence of the wife of His Excellency the President, Mrs. Zalfa Chamoun.