the Western states.
The Atlantic conference then dispersed, and the conferees issued a communiqué in which they replied to Russia's offers and expressed their hope that the Russians would prove by deeds, not by words, their sincere desire for disarmament and peaceful coexistence.
It is worth mentioning that the Atlantic communiqué placed disarmament negotiations with Russia at the head of the matters it expressed its desire to settle with Russia herself.
This apart, the opening event as far as Lebanon was concerned was the visit of His Majesty the Shah and Empress Soraya to Lebanon, where they spent five days as great guests of His Excellency the President of the Republic and his wife, in return for the visit President Chamoun paid to Iran in 1956.
The meeting called by the trio Naimy–Saydah–Jamal at the home of Mr. Georges Saydah issued in the formation of a committee under the presidency of Mr. Mikhail Naimy, with as members Messrs. Georges Saydah (treasurer), Youssef al-Khal, Bahij Uthman, Ahmad Abu Saad, Philip Kansaflis, Michel Asmar, Hasan Marwa, Michel Akl, Albert Rihani, Dr. Kamal al-Hajj, and Mrs. Edvick Shayboub.
This committee met on the evening of December 14 and decided that the memorial celebration for the departed poet Elia Abu Madi should be held on January 23, 1958, in the great assembly hall at the American University of Beirut. The celebration will be under
Habbouba Haddad Is Dead
• One of the pioneers of the women's renaissance in Lebanon, death folded her away on December 8, at sixty years of age spent in the struggle. She never once laid down her arms: to the last day of her life, and for twenty years, she spoke every Thursday afternoon to her friends, the little children, from the house of Radio Lebanon.
• Her culture was English, and her life was filled with travels. She founded in Paris the magazine "The New Life," then reestablished it in Beirut
between 1920 and 1926 — a monthly women's magazine.
• She presided over the Association of Working Women at the beginning of the French Mandate, and published her articles in Lebanese and American magazines and newspapers.
• In recognition of her efforts and of her services to the rising generation, the Lebanese government awarded her last summer the exalted Order of the Cedars, and His Excellency President Chamoun pinned it upon her breast.
• She left in the world an only son to carry on the battle of her struggle: Mr. Fouad Haddad, head of the Department of Arts in the Ministry of Education and Fine Arts, and one of our men of letters of a distinctive stamp.
• She was borne to her last resting place from the Greek Catholic Cathedral of Mar Elias, in a solemn ceremony in which the government shared with the family of the deceased and her friends their anguish and sorrow.
• "The Woman's Voice," as it offers to her son Mr. Fouad Haddad its due condolences, beseeches God to flood the noble departed with everlasting bliss and eternal rest in His spacious paradise.
the patronage of literature, and among those whose participation as speakers has been decided are the Iraqi poetess Nazik al-Mala'ika, Mr. Mikhail Naimy, and Dr. Sami al-Dahhan of Syria...
We have learned also that a com
mittee has been formed in Bikfaya and al-Muhaydithah — the village of the departed — under the presidency of Mr. Michel Touma, to collect donations, to bring the remains of the departed from New York to his village, and to erect a statue of him.