(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Palestine and Transjordania are claimed as a part of Syria in the text of the constitution for Syria now being voted upon by the constituent assembly.
By a vote yesterday the assembly accepted in principle the provisions of the constitution. The first article in the constitution declares that Syria is an independent sovereign state. The second article declares that Syrian territories detached from the former Turkish Empire are an indivisible entity and that all territory parcelling which occurred since the Great War are null and void. This article expresses the aspiration of the Syrian people to the eventual absorption by Syria of Palesine. Transjordnia, Dzebel Druze and the Alaouittes of the Lebanon.
The third article provides for a Moslem republican regime.
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