"An Anxious Nation"

• "An Anxious Nation" was the subject of the valuable lecture delivered, at the invitation of the Lebanese Women's League, on Friday, January 14, by Mrs. Anbara Salam Khalidi.

As was to be expected, the hall of the Ministry of Education was crowded with listeners, in view of the distinguished literary standing our woman of letters holds in cultivated circles — the more so since this voice had been absent from us for a time, only to return purer and of farther reach ...

With deliberation and understanding Mrs. Anbara treated her subject. She went on to analyze the causes of anxiety in our nation — political, religious, cultural, and social — proceeding step by step with great tact and great boldness, and concluded with a call to gather the ranks together, to unify the school curricula, to bring hearts into accord, and to rely upon national values rather than foreign ones.

Mrs. Anbara Salam is a pillar for us, firm of foundation — suffice it that she has joined elegance of pen to depth of thought and eloquence of speech ...