The Palestine Review, an English periodical, said today Grand Mufti Haj Amin el Hussaini and his assistants distributed hundreds of pamphlets among pilgrims at Mecca exhorting them to “rescue Palestine from the hands of conquering Zionism.” The periodical said the Mufti received little encouragement from King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia.
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