Friday, September 7, 1945
What Makes the Mufti So 'Sacred'?
Britain Still Protects Him
Despite Pro-Nazi Activity
Pressure Put on Yugoslavia to Withdraw War Criminal
Charges Against Mufti While He Lolls in Paris Suburb;
Left Palestine in 1937
LONDON, (JTA)—Informed sources here forecast an active
campaign by the Arab States, supported by numerous British
colonial officials, to whitewash the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin
El Husseini, organizer of revolts
in Palestine and Iraq against the ities never having removed him
British and founder of the Mos- from the post to which they ap-
lem Legion which fought in Ger- pointed him in 1921. His strong-
man uniform against Allied for- arm squads in the past also con-
ces in Europe.
tributed to his position by kill-
The Mufti, who was captured ing his foes.
after his flight from Berlin where
The only active Arab opposi-
hie had broadcast Axis propag-
anda and who is living under tion to the Mufti can now be ex-
surveillance in a Paris suburb, pected from the Arab trade
has been named as a war crim- unions organized without assist-
inal by the Yugoslav govern- ance from the Palestine admin-
ment which seeks his extradi- istration by the Jewish Labor
tion for trial on charges in con- Federation of Palestine.
nectibn with the legion he or-
ganized or renegade Yugoslav
Moslems.
Extradition Fought
The Arab States, according to
Cairo dispatches, have asked the
Yugoslav authorities not to pro-
ceed with their extradition de-
mand and assert that they have
assurance from both the British
"Huge amounts" are required
and the French that no charges
would be pressed against the for the absorption of the desti-
tute refugee newcomers to Pales-
Mufti.
They also are expected to tine, it was declared by Eliezer
urge the British government to Kaplan, treasurer of the Jewish
permit the Mufti to return to Agency for Palestine, in a cable
sent to Rabbi James G. Heller,
Palestine.
A number of British officials national chairman of the United
in the Palestine colonial admin- Palestine Appeal, asking that
istration are known here to be agency to intensify its efforts.
strong advocates of the return of
The message was sent follow-
the Mufti despite his anti-British ing the arrival of the largest
activities and his direct respon- group of immigrants to reach
sibility for recurrent terrorism Palestine in recent years, a trans-
in the Holy Land.
port of 1,305 Jewish men, wo-
men and children who had been
Left Palestine in 1937
Although the Mufti has been interned on the British Island
absent from Palestine since 1937, of Mauritius since the winter of
when he "escaped" from the Mos- 1940, the majority of whom were
que of Omar to Syria, he remains in a "deplorable" state-of health,
the dominant figure in the Pal- and required mental and physi-
cal rehabilitation before they
estine Arab scene to this day.
could
be integrated into the struc-
The Palestine Arab party,
which represents the Husseini ture of the Jewish homeland.
family and the factions support-
Mr. Kaplan reported that
ing it, continues to recognize the scores of the newcomers were
Mufti as its titular head, and in need of accommodation in
British officials give this group homes for the aged, 25% of them
an exaggerated importance by being over 55 years of age. The
recognizing it as the dominant 139 children who came with the
element in Palestine Arab poli- transport and a number of young
tics. Actually, the Husseini par- immigrants were sent to collec-
ty—and all the other Palestine tive settlements established by
Arab parties-together number the Keren Hayesod on Jewish
only a few thousand adherents— National Fund land. Some of
a minute fraction of the Pales- the newcomers were accommo-
tine Arab population.
dated in homes which were re-
The Mufti remains the religi- cently constructed by the Jew-
ous leader of the Palestine Arab ish Agency with the financial as-
community, the British author- sistance of the UPA.
Palestine Cables
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To Aid Newcomers
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Page Thirty-Three
THE JEWISH NEWS
J. N. F. Palestine
HIAS
Locates Son,
Who Escaped Nazis,
For Father in N. Y.
Leader Arrives
When Irving Gluck, 34 Hills-
dale, New York, rceeived two
snapshots of his nine-year-old
son, Hans, through the Hebrew
HANS GLUCK
Sheltering and Immigrant Aid
Society (HIAS), he was able to
rest easy for the first time in
more than a year, secure in
the knowledge that the young-
ster at last had found a safe
haven. His wife, however, is
still missing. The boy is in Nice,
France, after a series of hair-
breadth escapes from the Nazis.
Hans and his mother were in
France during the German in-
vasion, and his mother was ar-
rested by the Germans. A
friend took Hans to France, then
a part of unoccupied France. In
the summer of 1943 the Nazis
marched into Nice, and the
family which was caring for
Hans had to flee.
For a short time they found
refuge in Domazan, in the Prov-
ince of Garde, but this shelter
proved unsafe and the entire
family had to go into hiding.
Hans eras left in a Catholic
institution in Cavaillon. Two
months later he left the institu-
tion for a home in a family
which knew the youngster from
Nice, and was at that time liv-
ing in Aix-en-Provence.
The family returned to Nice
after the Nazi defeat, and Hans
will remain there until arrange-
ments are completed for him to
join his father in the U. S.
NEW YORK—The area of Na-
tional Jewish land possession in
Palestine, thanks to constantly
growing land acquisition pro-
gram of the Keren Kayemeth, has
been doubled during the war.
Extensive plans for the pur-
chase of new areas to prepare
for the settlement of great num-
bers of immigrants in the post-
war period is in process of being
implemented, declared Elias M.
Epstein, noted journalist and head
of the Overseas Department of
the Jewish National Fund in
Jerusalem, upon his arrival here.
Mr. Epstein, a special emis-
sary of the Palestine Land Fund,
also will visit Canada, Australia
and South Africa in the inter-
ests of the Fund.
During his stay here Mr. Ep-
stein will confer with the heads
of the JNF in the U. S. for the
purpose of re-establishing per-
sonal contact between the Jeru-
salem headquarters of the Pales-
tine Land Fund and the affiliat-
ed and cooperating organizations
and groups of the Fund which
has raised and invested $50,000,-
000 in the purchase of land in
Palestine.
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actor, declares that his latest,
highly successful play, "Wind
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a wartime show tour through
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