Dr. Musa el Husseini, cousin of Jerusalem's exiled Mufti and Ph.D. of London and Berlin universities, lay in his Amman prison cell one night last week and talked about going to Argentina to become a farmer. He could not believe that Jordan would hang him and three others for plotting the murder of King Abdullah. For days telegrams had been pouring into Amman pleading and warning against carrying out the sentence of the military court.
But on the appointed morning, Dr. el Husseini walked to the gallows. He was followed by the other condemned men—a cattle merchant, a coffee-house keeper, a butcher.
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