Canon Danby, of the St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem, visited this morning Chief Rabbis Kook and Jacob Meir, and Rabbi Sonnenfeld, the aged head of the Agudath Israel Community in Palestine, on behalf of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Chief Rabbi Kook is unable to return the visit, because he is in mourning for his mother, Chief Rabbi Meir is calling on the Archbishop of Canterbury this afternoon. Rabbi Sonnenfeld expressed to Canon Danby the hope that the Archbishop of Canterbury by his visit to the Holy Land would help to hasten the cause of world peace.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is calling in person this afternoon on the Grand Mufti at the Mosque of Omar.
The Archbishop of Canterbury will not visit the Wailing Wall, the J.T.A. understands, because the Foreign Office, which is consulted on every item of the Archbishop’s itinerary appears to be anxious to avoid raising the question whether he should be received by the Moslem or the Jewish authorities.
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