...it is nothing more or less than the successor of the old Arab National League, which on the eve of Pearl Harbor was Arab National League, which on the eve of Pearl Harbor was being operated as part and parcel of the political machine headed by the German-American Bund of the Nazi Party.
If you go through the files of the Weckruf und Beobachter, the Nazi official newspaper in this country, you will find month after month the reports of the activities of the Arab National League, and of the speeches of its president, Dr. Shatara, who later traveled about the country and addressed different units associated with the Bund.
No wonder that the doctor decided to commit suicide not long after Pearl Harbor. Yet the very same man whose name appeared as executive director on the letterhead of this old affiliate of the Nazi Bund, H. I. Katibah, is now in charge of the propaganda of the Institute of Arab-American Affairs.
The President of the Arab National League, the late Dr. F. I. Shatara, according to Deutscher Weckruf und Beobachter articles and other published reports, addressed many pro-Nazi groups, including meetings of Fritz Kuhn’s German-American Bund and of the German Citizens Protective League. (The head of the latter organization, Kurt Mertig , was recently sentenced to jail for inciting to riot at a Queens County, N. Y., Christian Front meeting).
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