Shukairy 1958 background report and more
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United States. Congress · 1961 · Law
In 1958 the society issued a special release exposing Shukairy's political background. ...
In our special release we pointed out that the parallel was not as coincidental as it seemed “ for Mr. Shukairy was the righthand man of the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, Hitler's most cooperative Arab agent." The ex-Mufti was a specialist in organizing pogroms against the Jews and he quickly became a favorite of Hitler. During World War II the ex-Mufti utilized Nazi propaganda facilities to incite the Arabs against the Allies.
Mr. Shukairy himself came to the United States in 1945 and established the “Arab Office” which, for all intents and purposes, served as a propaganda outlet in the US for the anti-democratic Policies of the ex-Mufti. In 1946, Shukairy Joined the Arab higher committee which was also headed by the ex- Mufti.
Shukairy got his start in politics in the early 1930s when he belonged to a group of fanatical extremists ed by the ex-Mufti.
This gang cooperated with the Communists and prior to the HitlerStalin Pact sought in every possible way to sabotage the Allied war effort against the Nazis in the Middle East. However, when Soviet Russia joined the Allies, Shukairy's group split with the Communists and went all out for Hitler.
A SOVIET FAVORITE
During the postwar period Shukairy played an active role in maintaining tension in the Middle East and inciting the Arabs against the West. In October 1955, he publicly bragged that Syria was negotiating an arms deal with the Russians. Indeed, it is generally believed that he was one of the architects of the deal. The Russians seem to be most apprediative of Shukairy's services.
He is one of the few Arab personalities whose views receive extensive coverage by the Soviet propaganda apparatus.
Thus, in the February 1961 issue of the Soviet publication “International Affairs,” reprinted Shukairy's attack against NATO made before the political committee of the U.N. General Assembly last December. Among Shukairy's vicious charges was that NATO “has proven to be subversive to the UN.” It was, therefore, not by chance that during the debate in the Special Committee, the Soviet spokesman, Mr. Morozov, declared that he was "deeply impressed by the statement of the Saudi Arabian representative (Shukairy) and by his appeal to approach the problem in an objective and impartial way.
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