Indignation at the action of the Arab Executive in merely censuring and dismissing Omar Saleh, one of the Executive’s three secretaries who was accused of divulging information to the police, is voiced by the Aljamea Al Arabia, organ of the Grand Mufti. The paper hints that much graver punishment was contemplated but was withheld for various reasons. The Saleh affair has left the Arab Executive exposed to attacks from both the Mufti’s party and the Falastin which is friendly to Saleh. The failure of the Executive to punish the latter is characterized as a desertion of God and country by Aljamea Al Arabia.
After censuring him for revealing secret documents to the police, the Arab Executive asked for and received the resignation of Saleh. The latter pleaded that he had acted in good faith in showing to the British police the text of the Executive’s resolutions and proclamations calling for a general strike on August 23, the first anniversary of last year’s riots.
Auni Abdul Hadi and Jamal Husseini, a nephew of the Grand Mufti, who conducted the inquiry, acquitted Saleh of treachery, recommending only a reprimand for negligence. Abdul Hadi was then elected secretary of the Executive to replace the dismissed Saleh while Jamal Husseini was named manager of the Executive’s office to succeed Subhi El Khadra, who has been exiled to a year’s enforced residence in Safed for having been the author of the proclamation, the text of which Saleh was accused of having given to the authorities.
Abdul Hadi, one of the Arab counsel before the Shaw Commission, was recently dismissed as counsel to the Moslem Supreme Council.
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