a collection of correspondence and telegrams sent and received by the American consular post in Beirut as they reported on the administration of the Mandate, its problems, protection of interests of American citizens, foreign, trade, shipping, and immigration.
It also covers issues such as the Druse Rebellion of 1925, religious conflicts between Christian, Maronite, and Muslim communities, repression by French military forces, French efforts to settle Bedouin tribes in Syria, nationalist organizations and rebellion, anti-Zionism activities, riots and civil disturbances, failure of the Franco-Lebanese Treaty of 1936, the 1939 new mandate administration in Syria, the advent of WWII, and Palestinian views on Syrian independence.
