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 For More Funds To Aid Newcomers 0: 2866 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. Branches in Oakland, Macomb, St. Clair and Washtenaw Counties Abstrasts - Title Insurance - Escrow Service Artists' Materials Drafting Materials AND SIGN SUPPLIES LEWIS ARTIST SUPPLY CO. 6408 WOODWARD Open Sat. Eve. Til Nine GRAND CIRCUS PARK STARTS FRIDAY SEPT. 14 r Ca tinidat‘ki Presents sr/ (1/0/20/6/4/ Rerry GO- ROUnO f Of Girf, 4 Lasand Lore VIRGINIA MAYO • VERA-EllEN DONALD WOODS • S. Z. SAKALL AU.EM JENKINS. • EDWARD BROPHY • OTTO KRUGER STEVE COCHRAN • VIRGINIA GILMORE and THE GOLDWYN GIRLS Directed by BRUCE HUMBERSTONE %rem Play by DON HARTMAN • MELVILLE SHAVELSON and PHILFP RAPT Kekossed Through RK0 RADIO PICTURES. 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