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French Government Anxious About Mufti’s Syrian Agitation

April 3, 1930
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Upon an inquiry into the disquieting Paris press reports from Syria, the French government is growing anxious regarding the situation but is determined to curb the agitation of the emissaries of the Syria-Palestine committee from Egypt, the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency was informed today by a high authority in the Quai Dorsay, the French Foreign Office.

The possibility was not excluded, it was said in the French Foreign Office of making an outright political demand that the activity of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who is known to be involved in the appeals to the Lebanese and Syrians to revolt against the French, be checked.

It is now learned that the French prevented the Mufti from accentuating last August’s troubles in Palestine by refusing him a visa for Syria. The same authority is confident that Great Britain will now take steps to curb the Mufti’s inflammatory agitation outside of the Palestinian boundaries.

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