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CAIRO TO DAMASCUS
". . . ON THE SOIL OF KASHMIR OR PALESTINE"
WITH the triumph of the Allies, the Mufti again became a
fugitive. He reached France and was housed in a villa in the
fashionable Paris suburb of Rambouillet. At a time when
France hungered, the Mufti lived in luxury. The French
winked an eye at all this, anxious not to hurt His Excellency's
feelings because France held Morocco, Indochina, and other
colonies with heavy Moslem populations.
England, too, had to proceed cautiously lest it offend the
pro-Axis Arab ruling cliques of the Middle East. Although
morally she should have undertaken the prosecution of the
Mufti as a war criminal, she did not ask France for his extradition. It was about this time that the Mufti's escape to Cairo
was engineered by Marouf Dawalibi—the Mephisto