The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem has been elected President of the Executive appointed by the Moslem World Conference, which concluded in the early hours of this morning after an allnight sitting. The Executive consists of 25 members, three of whom are Palestinians, including Auni Bey Abdul Hadi and Sheikh Mouzzafar, (one of the agitators whose names appeared on the Government Black List after the 1929 massacres).
The Conference also elected an Administrative Committee of seven members, with Tabat Abiah, ex-Premier of Persia, as General Secretary, Riadh Bey, of Syria, who is an active member of the Palestine-Syrian Committee in Geneva, as Assistant Secretary, Mohamed Ali Pasha, former Minister of Wakfs in Egypt, as Treasurer, and Said Samil, Nabhi Eddin, and Thaala Bey, Mufti of Tunis, as members.
The list is still subject to confirmation, the ballot having been in secret, and the results have not yet been officially published. If the list of members of the Administrative Committee is correct, the Persian ex-Premier and the other non-Palestinian members would become residents in Jerusalem, which will be the headquarters of the movement for the next two years.
The 25 members of the Executive include Shaukat Ali, the Indian Moslem leader, who is said, however, to have declined to serve, because he is dissatisfied with the way in which the Conference was conducted, especially the refusal of the Grand Mufti to accept his compromise proposals to enable his opponents in Palestine to take part in the Conference, Sir Mohamed Iqubal and Shafi Daudi, two leading Indian Moslems, Abdul Rachman Bey Azzan, of Egypt, and Iyad Ishaki of the Urals.
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