the standing and support it won in all American circles.

Woman's political right has gained her, in the eyes of Lebanese public opinion, such immunity and strength as make it easy for her to undertake a similar effort; and were she to work in a definite direction and in an organized, scientific manner, she could reform the health situation and turn it upside down.

The overturn I call for in these conditions does not in the least mean changing the administrative machinery, or bringing about destructive political coups. What I mean by it is an overturn in thought, one that will shake the foundations of the negative attitudes which have grown accustomed to the existing health situation, accepted it, and placed it at a rank many degrees below the first. The figures of the public budget bear witness to this, as does the dwindling number of services devoted to the care of mother and child.

Woman has a final word — rather, a fundamental word — in the field of the care of mother and child and the lowering of the infant mortality rate, and I would have her say it at the outset of her political activity: a word of unanimity, a word clear and plain, which she makes a serious subject for bargaining with the responsible men among the candidates of the coming electoral campaign.

Woman is the mother of man, and after today I shall not be content for the Lebanese woman to accept the death of a single human being in Lebanon as the result of neglect and deprivation.