PALESTINE UNREST
ANALYSIS OF CAUSES MATTER FOR INVESTIGATION (British Official Wireless.) (Received June 16, 11.20 a.m.) RUGBY,, June 15. The Colonial Secretary declined to make a statement in the House of Commons this afternoon on the causes of the recent unrest'in Palestine, on the ground that they would be among matters for investigation by the proposed Royal Commission, and in these circumstances it would be most improper for him to attempt to analysa them at this moment. Replying to a supplementary question, Mr. Ormsby-Gore declared emphatically that the Commission would only be set up when law and order had been fully restored in Palestine. There were other supplementary questions which went unanswered, but the Colonial Secretary intervened to contradict "clearly and definitely" an incidental suggestion that the Grand Mufti was paid a salary by the British* Government. • -
A Mufti is a consulting canon lawyer in Islam who gives opinion on points of sacred law. Generally in a Moslem State there afe Muftis in different districts, each appointed by the Government. In pre-Republican Turkey the Chief Mufti of Constantinople was head of the ecclesiastical side of tb« State, while the Grand Vizier was head of secular matters. The Grand Mufti ck> cupies a somewhat similar position.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 10
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