Woman Who Fears Nothing

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 36, 12 February 1937, Page 11

Woman Who Fears Nothing

LEADER OF ARABS Prison walls have no terror for Mrs Mated E. Alogannnam, olive-skinned Arab wife of a Jerusalem Arab lawyer, who has decided that tho women op Palestine must support the Grand Alufti's ban on tho Royal Commission. {Sitting in her Oriental home in Jeru- = salem, she told a newspaper correspond- = ent a sensational story of the Arab 5 plans for tho future of Palestine. § "Across the desert, between the = Jordan and tho Tigris, the Asabs are § massing,” she said. ‘‘Fauzy Kawikzy, f the Great One—whom you call our 5 {Scarlet Pimpernel—is training this = Arab army. Recruits are coming from | {Syria, Transjordan, Arabia and Irak. = "They will not fight while the com- § mision stays in Palestine. But after | the Commission has returned home this = army will march across the desert, = through tho almost impassable lava = country—one section through Amman f across the Jordan valley to Jerusalem, | the other in the north through the plain | of Jezreel. "They will slaughter the Jews, and 3 because tho British will protect the = Jews, they will bo forced to kill them § too. "I am ready to go to prison at any = moment in support of the ban," Mrs f Mogannara said as she sipped sweet | Turkish coffee. 4 ‘l shall keep my mouth | shut. Nothing will make me give in. = When tho police come I will go with | them. "The Royal Commission may have | power to command me to appear before I them, but they cannot open my mouth | —they can only send mo to prison." ? Mrs Mogannam represents tho Arab women 'a committee, tho power behind the Arab men’s higher committee. Smiling wistfully, she explained: 44 You see, 1 think maybe the Arab committee has been a little hasty in deciding to boycott, but tho decision \ has ben made, and," her dark eyes glowed with excitement, "we women will stand by it."