“Father Douairi, Secretary of the Maronite Patriarch, asks for a recommendation from our representatives in America to facilitate a mission authorized by the Patriarch. It would be to increase the interest of the Lebanese in their country of origin and stop the emigration.
November 25, 1920.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs in Bogota
“I would be obliged to report that you must confirm to the Lebanese in the country of your residence, that the independence of Greater Lebanon under the French mandate was proclaimed on September 1. The Bekaa, Tyr, and Saida, Beirut, and Tripoli have been attached. The flag adopted by the population is the tricolor flag carrying a cedar in the white band.”