M. Henry de Jouvenel, the French High Commissioner to Syria, discharges, when at Paris, the routine if important duties of Senator and acts as editor-in-chief of Le Matin. Now, however, he has been installed at Beirut (TIME, Dec. 14) to act as pacifier extraordinary and conciliator plenipotentiary to the rebellious and half-nomadic peoples whose sporadic attacks make it so difficult and expensive for France to administer Syria as a League of Nations mandate. Last week M. de Jouvenel announced that he had received overtures of peace from Sultan Atrash, the warrior chief...
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