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Mufti’s Return to Palestine Inadvisable, Prof. Frankfurter Declares

November 29, 1937
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PROF. FELIX FRANKFURTER OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, IN A LETTER PUBLISHED IN TODAY’S NEW YORK TIMES, QUOTES FROM THE ROYAL COMMISSION REPORT AND OTHER DOCUMENTS TO SHOW THAT THE RETURN TO PALESTINE OF THE FUGITIVE MUFTI OF JERUSALEM WOULD NOT AID THE COUNTRY’S PEACE. HE CALLS THE MUFTI “THE EVIL GENIUS OF PALESTINE.” THE LETTER IS IN REPLY TO ONE BY PROFESSOR CRABITES OF LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY PUBLISHED LAST SUNDAY.

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