Word: el-husseini
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Stuff & Nonsense? Jerusalem's ex-Mufti, Haj Amin el-Husseini, dropped in on the conference unexpectedly, and officially uninvited. He had simply flown up from Cairo in a chartered plane, bringing his armed guards along. One morning while Premier al-Sulh was still shaving, the Mufti turned up at his house. Told that the Mufti was in his garden, the Premier snorted unbelievingly: "Stuff and nonsense." But there he was. Lebanon tightened up security measures accordingly, turned back Jewish travelers at the frontier. The Mufti was back in the limelight of gestures and intrigue. He sent a cryptic message...
...el-Krim got a hero's welcome in Cairo, where Farouk also protects the white-bearded ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini, and exiled Nationalist Leader Habib Bourgiba of Tunisia. But there was consternation in Paris. The Quai d'Orsay called El-Krim's action "contrary to the traditions of honor that are those of Moroccans of his rank...
...Cairo last week a freckled, pug-nosed Arab soldier-adventurer basked in glory. The Arab press hailed him as a hero. The exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, grey-bearded Haj Amin El-Husseini, received him warmly. The Lebanese Legation gave a reception for him. He granted interviews in his suite at the Hotel Continental, talked cheerfully about starting an Arab war against both British and Jews in Palestine...
When a news sensation lasts longer than one day, the Paris press calls it an affaire. By last week the disappearance from France of Haj Amin El-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, was firmly established as I'affaire Mufti. The man himself was a character straight out of a cloak-&-dagger novel...
...year-old Mufti (whose claim to the aristocratic "El-Husseini" is dubious) is revered as a spiritual leader by Palestine's Arabs. He has been a fanatical anti-Zionist ever since the British appointed him as Mufti in 1921. In 1937, after a murder, he was wafted out of Palestine, where a warrant still exists for his arrest. During the war, he was accused of trafficking with Hitler and Mussolini, of fomenting the Iraq revolt of 1941, and of urging on Germany a systematic policy of exterminating Jews. Last year he entered France from Switzerland, and has been living...