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Exiled Ex-mayor of Jerusalem Permitted to Return to Palestine

April 17, 1941
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The Government announced today it was permitting Dr. Hussein el Khalidi, former mayor of Jerusalem, who was exiled in 1937 for complicity in Arab anti-British and anti-Jewish terrorism, to return to Palestine. The official Palestine Gazette stated that the order barring Khalidi from returning to Palestine had been revoked.

Dr. Khalidi was one of five Arab nationalist leaders arrested in October, 1937, and exiled to the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean during a drive against Arab agitators.

He is 47 years old, was educated in Istanbul, where he received his medical degree, and served in the Turkish army from 1914 to 1919. He belongs to one of the principal Moslem families in Palestine and many of his relatives hold positions in judicial, educational and other services.

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