New 08-2005: Hashim al-Atasi and members of the National Bloc in Paris placing flowers on the memorial of French soldiers killed in combat. This picture was taken in Paris in 1936 when the Bloc was conducting independence talks with French Prime Minister Leon Blum. Behind Atasi are Mustapha al-Shihabi, Jamil Mardam Bey, and Saadallah al-Jabiri.