FALL OF JABRI CABINET: FORMATION OF MERDUM MINISTRY

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• Publication Date: February 26, 1947
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Poraation of Mardea ministry
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Forte Prise Minister 8s'dallah Jabri 4 s worsening relations with President
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wtatli. a subject of gossip since early last suaarar end ooasan knowledge
sip the evaeustion celebration. *no to a bead during the Damascus riots
of aid-fir 1940.
2. Jabri bad not Mesita( d to express his oondesnatiou of the weak and Iaoil
eembeln- of the go'eern-
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an
luting attitude adopted by Presidsm Qu wratli >ro
sent, the following sequence of events took place in Novesber, ending in
the change of gp*ermmms>t.
up= entering a as sting of the aaukhtars (ward bosses) of Damascus, c.vpked
by 4 swag 1i during the rioting* Price Minister Jabri owes op y rebuffed by
the
surraai _ -a. a gi~ his mnouneed
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plans, took a plan. for the Arab League meetings in Cairo. Upon* arriving in
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that he was gravely ill and unable to return
4. In the absence of the Prime Ministers President Qurwwstli's personal
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aSab upon a change of government and to it-atall a Prime Minister who would be
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to secure the cooperation of Khalid 'Aim, Minister of Motiona
MS.khail ;'yan, Minister of Public Works.
5. ?Am and ilyan were persuaded to resign with the rest of the Cabinet, an the
according to
it was inteixtded
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promise of the Premiership for 'Aim.nowerer,
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A_" -1- 1A be .hewed and Sabri tAsali,
b
of the
Minister of the Interior, named as Prime Minister.
. The gpvsrn went, accordingly, resigned without the prior knowledge of Prime gin-
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later Jab-&. by plot
was, however, wrecked by a sudden personal feud between ?Asali and the President.
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habits, such as drinking and gemmbl ing, at which s As ali j*torted with the law
ident
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plication that without him Qw vstli would not have been
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-resident Quwwatli, Thereupon., renounced the candidacy of 'Asalt
!And urged .iabri to return and to re-form the government. Upon the
latter as piqued refusal, Quwaratli su oned Jam-il Msrdae fey? and
erdaa._ with such difficulty, succeeded in bringing together the
present uosiition of all interests, except "Asali and the lChalid
A t coup.
t:o nant of another. reliable, aourcea
1"aregraphs 4 - 7 would seem to have been confirmed by the tact that
iw,srdem Government has the support (or, at least, the acquiescence)
in Parliament of the former radical opposition while the new oppo-
ition is formed by 9Asali and the Khalid 'Asra ?- Mikhail Ilyan group.
This
affecting
United States
the espionage Act;
32, as amended, Its
the revelation of its
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prohibited by law,
tional defense of the
in the meaning of
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