GREATER SYRIA PLAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300510002-4
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 1, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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said to have made the following statements on the question of Greater s ;i .;
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The ' ho a question had been ha? led too hastil.y. largely because
of the tempararne t of the King;
The decisions recently takes by the Trans-Jordanian Chamber were
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and Lebanese Chambers. The Tran JordanivY-L Chamber had to
taa.ae a ;;td on the subject, and King .Abda'i.lah drew up these
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(d) King'Abd--al-Asia (Thn Saud) of Saudi Arabia is certainly
opposed to the project. Certain tribal legs could
easily be bought over by nn Sattad,, and King Abdallah
mould have to devote part of his eneror to internal
dissensions. The -O.ost dangerous element in Tranm.Jorda n,
from the standpoint of the King, is the intelligentsia
of the kingdom. AU the educated classes are disappointed
with King Abdallah's conception of the monarchy-and particularly-with his dictatorial manner. These masses
had already been forced to join Dr. Abu Ghartimaht s camp, and
they would u.tinately take a stand for a republic.
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3. The associates and partisans of Emi:Lq Edde of Lebanon state
that Edna: favors the Greater Syria plan for the following reasons:
(a) The Moslem enclaves of North Lebanon (Tripoli?-and
South Lebanon (Shi'as) would be joinod to Syria p
leaving the historical Lebanon with i nolid. Christian
majority;
(b) Edde could argue that events since Nove;aber.19143
had vindicated him: that he had foreseen the creation
of a British-dominated Arab I.iosleta state hostile
to Christians;
(e) The need of the Christians in Lebanon for protection
and for a defender (F de himself) would aid In Edde& s
return to powers in the face of the realisation of the
Greater Syria plan.
4. Source stated that the Lebanese Government has been trying to
smite out Emile Edde on the subject of the Greater Syria plan,
and the newspaper Nida 614 aten of 10 De bar 19146 published
an anonymous charge it- dde r s dealing with a Greater Syria
agent. The article ended with the Words: "In view of all this.,
it would be proper for Mr. Edda to announce his vier.3 on the
subject of Greater Syria."
5. Kamm Junblat j Lebanese Minister of :conon r and Agriculture,
is also reported to have said, after calling on Emile Eddea that
the latter is very happy at the prospect of the realisation of
this plan.
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