Summary
Bosnian Muslim politician, Minister of Transport in the Belgrade government, who received Niqula Khoury and Emile al-Ghouri in Belgrade in September 1937 and commended their cause to his fellow ministers (‘The House of the Priest’: A Palestinian Life (1885-1954), PDF p.143).
Details
- Dr Mehmed Spaho (1883-1939) was one of the first Bosnian Muslim politicians in what was in the interwar period called the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia), first held ministerial office in 1918, held the Transport ministry in Milan Stojadinović’s government, and died in mysterious circumstances, possibly poisoned by political opponents, in 1939 (editors’ note, PDF p.143).
- Khoury and al-Ghouri carried a letter from the Mufti to Spaho; he gathered Yugoslav Muslim leaders and presented them, contacted the publishers of the official newspaper Vreme for pictures and an interview, contacted the Prime Minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Information commending them, and transmitted the letters of recommendation from all of these to the Yugoslav delegation in Geneva (PDF p.143-144).
Related pages
‘The House of the Priest’: A Palestinian Life (1885-1954), Niqula Khoury, Emile al-Ghouri