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word, and not only the conveyor of our declarations. You will
be the man to direct the Arab force and at that moment I
cannot imagine what would happen to the Western peoples.
DAS ARABISCHE BVRO: DER GROSSMUFTI
IN GERMANY a special office was set up for the MuftiDas Arabische Biiro: der Grossmufti—and here he engaged in
an amazing number of services. They included extensive
short-wave broadcasts to Arab states, and to Moslem-populated islands in the Pacific—all, of course, earning the "devoted feelings of esteem and respect" of Japanese officials. The
Mufti beamed to the United States:
I want to draw the attention of the Arab emigrants in America to this fact ... I would remind them that their efforts will
be wasted if, God forbid, America and her Allies are victorious
in this war. For if that happened, the Arabs would never rise
again. ... I therefore am confident that those Arab emigrants in America will refrain from helping Roosevelt or from
taking part i