Italy last week acquired the services of one of the wiliest anti-British leaders of the Moslem world. Haj Amin El-Husseini, exiled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, specializes in spectacular escapes from the wrath of the British Empire, whose peace he has been disturbing for the past 21 years.
In 1920 he eluded a ten-year sentence for incitement to revolt by fleeing to Trans-Jordan. Pardoned, he returned to Jerusalem to incite more riots, fled in 1937 to the Mosque of Omar, a holy refuge.
Later he fled to Syria, from Syria to Bagdad, capital of Iraq. After participating in the Iraqi coup this spring, he...
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