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| | Politics | UK planned 'dodgy dossier' against wartime Arab leader |
 | | The documents show that Mr Eden; the war secretary, Captain David Margesson; Sir John Dill, the chief imperial general staff; and Britain's highest ranking military officer, General Sir Archibald Wavell, the Commander-in-Chief in India; and Sir Harold MacMichael, the High Commissioner for Palestine, were all informed and asked for their opinions. |
 | | Sir Harold considered the mufti was a "really great danger" to the war effort, adding: "I regard his neutralisation as essential," according to a December 1940 telegram. |
 | | By October 1941 a row between British officials in Cairo and the BBC was brewing after the corporation broadcast a German radio report of "unknown authenticity" that the mufti had reached southern Italy, according to a Foreign Office document. |
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