Deny Jewish Designs on Mosques

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July 5, 1938

LONDON (Jul. 4)

Formal denial of rumors that Palestine Jews planned to take over, with the approval of the British government, the El Aska mosque in Jerusalem and other Moslem shrines was made in Commons today by Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald.

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