Mufti Muffed

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 escaped to Iran. When British and Russians occupied that country the Grand Mufti disappeared.

This week officials in Rome announced that the elusive Mufti had done it again. He was safe in Italy. According to the Italians, the British had set $100,000 on his head. By what devious route the Mufti slipped through Britain's clutching fingers was his secret.

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