On the tenth of last July the Syrian people were unanimous in electing the Leader Adib al-Shishakli President of the Syrian Republic, and spoke their decisive word on the new Syrian constitution, under which the Syrian woman will be granted her full right to elect and to be elected.

On this occasion we received from Damascus the following word from Miss Munawwar Fawwal, on behalf of the administrative board of the League of Arabic Literature.

For a long time the Syrian lands have been living in a thorny situation — no republican stability, and no Chamber of Deputies to carry out the aims which the people hangs upon the necks of officials and deputies as a precious trust...

The past years went by as a crawling thing goes — in slow steps and a still, quiet motion, with no tremor in it, and no ray breaking forth toward the fulfillment of the great hopes which the individuals of the people had placed in the keeping of the honorable deputies and the men of the bygone regime.

Yes, the situation described above shamed us and stripped the confidence from our souls, before our sisters the Arab states and before our enemies in the foreign countries — every state and city chewing over the story of Syria, the story of the evolution of its government, and the story of the two coups that took place in recent years. But there is one good soul, rebellious, ablaze with the heat of a dignity that admits no defeat, whose eye never sleeps to aggression... and the noble humanity in whose heart surpasses every Arab pride and every lofty patriotic spirit — the soul of the country's

His Excellency the President, the Leader, at the Republican Palace, addressing his greeting to the Syrian people