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SYRIAN LEADER ON NEAR EAST POLITICS

Damascus, To-day.

CZECH PROBLEM

Prague, To-day.

Lord and Lady Runciman, accom- panied by Mr. and Mrs. Peto, have returned to Prague and the Mission has resumed study of the docu- ments connected with the questions the Mission has come to study, states a report issued by the Sec- The problem of political apretariat of Lord Runciman's Mis- peasement in the Near Eastsion, Trans-Ocean. formed the main subject of an interview given by the Premier, Mardam Bey, shortly before his departure for Paris.

He said he was going to France with the object of impressing upon French circles the urgent necessity

making their regular contribution to the State revenue."

PALESTINE PROBLEM

In the matter of the action of the

of expediting the ratification of the Syrian government in forbidding Franco-Syrian Treaty, which he the holding of the Palestine Con- regarded as the sole guarantee for gress in Syria; he declared that his the preservation of ordered condi- Government would continue to tions in this part of Near East.

As regards Alexandretta he said Syria would not recognize any ac- cord brought about without its direct participation. This was a matter, however, which would not prevent Syria from seeking to be on the best of possible terms with its Turkish neighbour.

Mardam Bey intimated that among problems which would have to be tackled in Paris, was the ques

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adopt this attitude, but that it could not afford to stand aloof from the events which were taking place in the Syrian frontier.

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He hoped for speedy settlement of the Palestine problem. Those Syrian Deputies who were not mem- bers of the Government have been given carte Blanche in the matter of deciding their attitude toward the Palestine Congress.

Asked regarding his policy for

tion as to whether the Dwezireh improving commercial relations territory was to continue to

with Lebanon he pointed out that main under an abnormal or emer-Syria would 'demand the retention gency regime.

of equal custom duties between the countries and the free exchange country,

the Premier Mardam Bey,"

"Ordered conditions," insisted of local products. Each

now however, would have to undertake prevail throughout the Dwezireh to collect its own custom revenues. territory, and the inhabitants are-Trans-Ocean.

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