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Iraq Refuses to Permit Jewish Wives to Join Their Husbands in Palestine

September 16, 1946
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The Iraq Government has refused to permit six Jewish girls from Iraq to leave the country for Palestine to join their husbands whom they married while the Palestinians were serving with the British Army in Baghdad.

The Palestine Government, it was revealed today by the Jewish Agency, has intervened with the Iraq authorities unsuccessfully. The Iraq Government insisted that any action from outside the country amounts to intervening in its “sovereign rights.”

Fawzi Bey el Kaukaji, the notorious leader of Arab terrorist gangs, is leaving from “somewhere in Europe” and returning to an undesignated Arab country, it was learned today from a message to his family. Fawzi is responsible for the killing of hundreds of Jews in the Arab terroristic outrages in 1936, thus earning the title of “Public Enemy No. 1” from the Palestine police. In 1941, he participated in the pro-Nazi insurrection in Iraq. Later he fled to Nazi-dominated countries. Authorities fear that his reappearance in the Near East will be the signal for further terrorism against Jews in Palestine.

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