The U.S. has not received a Lebanese note answeringits protests against the seizure last week of 69 Jews, including 41 American citizens, from an American ship in the port of Beirut, a State Department spokesman today said.
Meanwhile, reports from Beirut stated that in their answer, allegedly delivered to American Minister Lowell C. Pinkerton, the Lebanese rejected the American representations, asserting that they were acting within their rights. Foreign correspondents were informed that they would be permitted to view the 69 prisoners Monday at a former Syrian army “base some 40 miles east of Beirut.
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