The Visit of the British Labour Deputy Dr. Summerskill

Lebanon was visited during the past month by Dr. Summerskill, the prominent British Labour Deputy, on her way to Syria and Egypt to acquaint herself with their affairs and to verify the truth of what is being debated in the British House of Commons concerning the Suez Canal crisis.

Dr. Summerskill was received by the Deputy Mr. Ghassan Tueni in the name of the Speaker of the Chamber, and she was also received by a delegation from the Progressive Socialist Party headed by Mr. Kamal Jumblatt. The two were the best possible representatives of Lebanese and Arab public opinion at the press conference which the British Deputy held in Beirut, and at which she cut off the path of the journalists who wished to question her about her government's hostile stand toward Egypt, saying that although she stands in opposition to the government, she refrains, outside her country, from criticizing the government and its policy, in observance of a venerable British tradition which requires the opposition to confine its opposition within the borders of the country. Among those who received Dr. Summerskill was also a delegation representing the women's organizations in Lebanon.