With Mrs. Inaam Salam and Mrs. Emily Nasrallah

The reporter of The Woman's Voice secured an exclusive interview with Mrs. Inaam Salam and Mrs. Emily Nasrallah upon their return from the sister country of Egypt, after their meeting with General Muhammad Naguib and his esteemed wife, and put to them the following questions:

Question: I imagine this is not your first visit to Egypt. What changes, alterations, and innovations caught your eye?

Mrs. Nasrallah: The most striking change I noticed on this trip, compared with my earlier one, is the absence of the former King Farouk from the field, and with him the passing of the era of corruption and chaos.

Mrs. Salam: And the renewal that followed this change is the emergence of Egypt's great hero, General Muhammad Naguib, his capable supporters, and his blessed movement.

Question: And did you sense popular support for President General Muhammad Naguib, for his movement, and for his works?

Mrs. Salam: The broad support enjoyed by the leader of the revolution in Egypt needs no lamp-bearer to make it visible and manifest, for it is in truth the most prominent thing in modern Egypt.

Question: And did you visit the General and his lady wife at their home merely to make their acquaintance, or for other matters as well?

Mrs. Nasrallah: For the honor of the acquaintance first of all — and this was in the company of a number of Lebanese ladies — and secondly to broach with the General and his lady wife, in that friendly, cheerful atmosphere they created for us, matters of consequence to Lebanon and the Lebanese.

We had hardly mentioned to her the longing of us Lebanese, one and all, to see the Egyptians and the Lebanese residing in Egypt spend the summer season amid Lebanon's green hills and its sweet climate, and hardly asked that such travel be made easier, when the General replied: "That is a duty" — and his charming wife added: "Rather, it is a happy opportunity that will allow me to visit Lebanon, which I love."

Mrs. Salam: It is worth mentioning that the President's wife received us with her breast adorned with the Lebanese cedar, and so tipped the scales of our hearts from the very start.

Mrs. Nasrallah: But believe me, this lady possesses such charm, kindness, lightness of spirit, and grace of hospitality as entitle her to win the hearts of all people; and such is the fact.

Question: And did you speak of other matters?

Mrs. Salam: Yes. We raised the question of the employees of Lebanese origin who were dismissed from their posts because at the time of their birth their fathers did not hold Egyptian nationality. Truly, we would not have ventured with such eagerness to raise a question of this kind were it not for the encouraging atmosphere in which we found ourselves, and for the merry smile with which the General accompanied his words — a smile that passed like contagion to all present — and for the fraternal feeling created for us by his lady wife. That on the one hand; on the other, we were emboldened by our good intentions and by our zeal, as supporters of modern Egypt and of the principles of its renaissance, to see this nation united and liberated, unmarred by any flaw, its ranks knowing no misstep. Mrs. Nasrallah presented him with a memorandum to this effect, after speaking to him of its contents. The General received it with all cheerfulness and promised to study it and to do justice to the dismissed men at the earliest possible time.

We have learned, moreover, that the General presented his gracious portrait, signed in his own hand, to every lady represented at that gathering. Some motion-picture and still photographs were taken of them with him. May God bless the energy of our rising, working ladies.