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| | Commentary Magazine - Jews, Arabs, and French Diplomacy: A Special Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | ...Its chairman, Henri Ponsot, considered one of the department’s most eminent authorities on the Middle East, was at the same time regularly calling on the mufti, Haj Amin, to flatter and promote him... |
 | | ...The Quai d’Orsay’s go-between, Henri Ponsot, a former high commissioner and ambassador in Syria, was impressed by the mufti’s “certain air of dignity and aristocratic grace,” as well as by his intellect and his correct French... |
 | | ...Henri Gaillard, consul in Cairo, condemned the Jews of Egypt for “complaining without limit about the fate of those [in Europe] who share their religion... |
| www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V119I5P29-1.htm (14578 words) |
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