Cartoon of the Day 5: On the Boards that mean the World, or Discussing the Lebanese Constitution of 1926

by Alexander Reindl, University of Heidelberg When France and Great Britain were given mandates over former Ottoman territories in the Levant by the League of Nations after the First World War, they were also obliged to lead the newly created units towards independence and to provide them with constitutions and a so-called ‘Organic Law’. Albeit belatedly, France fulfilled this mandate for the Greater Lebanon created in 1920 from the end of 1925 on. The French High Commissioner for Lebanon an...