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...test came in 1942's late summer. Parliament's rump gathered in Châtelguyon's shabby Hotel Richelieu, heard Cabinet Chief Pierre Laval decree the legislature's virtual death. Edouard Herriot, with venerable Senate President Jules Jeannenez, broke silence. To Chief of State Pétain he sent a solemn, indignant protest: "You have substituted unlimited dictatorship for guarantees that all civilized nations grant. . . . It is impossible for liberty to die in the country of its birth...
Safe in the back hills of Lebanon, some 35 miles from Beirut, a Lebanese rump government sat tight last week and awaited developments in its struggle for independence with the French Mandate authorities (TIME, Nov. 22), Its best game was to wait, to let the pressure of a general strike, uneasiness throughout the Levant and the Arab world, powerful influence from Britain and the U.S. force the French Committee of National Liberation to come to terms...
Lebanese President Bechara El Khoury and Premier Riad Solh were still detained by the French. All titles and portfolios of the rump administration were held by Habib Abou Chala, shrewd, cautious Beirut lawyer, who had been Solh's Vice Premier, and fiercely mustachioed Emir Mejid Arslan, Defense Minister. Indolent, fun-loving Arslan is the reigning prince of the battlewise mountaineer Druses, who gave French forces a mauling in 1927, asked nothing better than another chance to fight the hated Faranji...
French Advance. When troops attempted to arrest the rump officials in their hill-country headquarters, Arslan whistled up his Druse riflemen and for three hours skirmished with French forces. The mixup ended when British troops moved in between and clamped down...
...Governors were unorganized, but slowly, surely they began to move as a team. They elbowed their way into the committees, covered the press room with pronouncements, held small rump sessions in the lobby and the bar. Soon the 100 correspondents at Mackinac found all the news coming from the Governors...