Word: mufti
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...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...
...forced upon him. While Byrnes has been saddled with negotiations on Europe, no U.S. policy ha's been made in wide areas of the world. The U.S. Palestine policy as enunciated by Truman was mere mischievous vote-catching, as unrealistic in its extreme pro-Zionism as the Grand Mufti's antiSemitism. No one is really making policy on Latin America. On China, a key piece in the U.S. policy structure, John Carter Vincent, director of the State Department's Far Eastern Division, last fortnight rushed in to fill the vacuum left by Byrnes's absence; Vincent...
...other interested parties were also busy recasting their strategy. Palestine Arabs sent a delegation to confer with the exiled Grand Mufti in Cairo. Arab participation in the London Conference on Palestine when it reconvenes on Dec. 17 may result...
...minimum, Elizabeth Fargo '50, an ex-Navy nurse, claims her monthly subsistence check doesn't go very far even with living at home. The girls are drawing out of their savings, and that will keep up as long as the money lasts. Mrs. Deerhake, whose husband, garbed in mufti and green eyeshade, spent the war in the Radiation Laboratory at M.I.T., is drawing $90 a month--for support of her spouse...
There was a shakeup in the Paris police over I'affaire Mufti, and Britain's Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was sufficiently disturbed by it to order an investigation of his intelligence service. Mr. Bevin was already disturbed by a howl of anger from the U.S. which followed a remark of his at Bournemouth: that the U.S. wanted the 100,000 Jews in Palestine "because they did not want too many of them in New York...