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...example, during the worst of the Arab riots in Palestine, he was in constant and dangerous touch with the Arab leaders. He reached and interviewed the Grand Mufti when he was being sought by the British, wandered through the Arab quarters with a nonchalance that frightened his friends. Visiting Correspondent Phelps Adams is quoted as saying, "Zinder knew what the Arabs would do and where they would do it almost as soon as they knew it themselves...
...propaganda kept telling them that the British would let them down, whereas the Axis would make their dreams of a united Arabia come true. Two of the chief propagandists, operating from Rome, were Iraq's ousted quisling Premier, Rashid Ali El-Gailani, and the sly, self-styled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Jah Amin el Husseini. In Syria, mass dislike of the Free French-British puppet Government was breaking out in the form of bread riots. In Iraq, pro-Axis youth movements were active. In Iran, the Japanese Legation was a propaganda hotbed...
...signed up in the Third Registration. Early numbers will mean a call to arms some time in June. Meanwhile the Army will pick & choose from among the 17,500,000 registrants of 1940-41. Last week many a registrant, teetering uneasily between mufti and khaki, was confused about the future...
...Government in London watched anxiously. But the British breathed easier when Prime Minister Nahas Pasha appointed Sir Amin Osman Pasha as a liaison officer between the British and Egyptian Governments. Sir Amin had worked smoothly with the British in carrying compromise proposals to Haj Amin El-Husseini, fugitive Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, in the midst of the Arab-Jewish agitation over Palestine in 1939. The British were confident Sir Amin would bring reassurances such as TIME has received* that Egypt's young King Farouk was firmly pro-Ally...
This week officials in Rome announced that the elusive Mufti had done it again. He was safe in Italy. According to the Italians, the British had set $100,000 on his head. By what devious route the Mufti slipped through Britain's clutching fingers was his secret...