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Maintaining Status Quo in Palestine: Archbishop of Canterbury Protests Against Governor of Jerusalem

April 20, 1931
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The Archbishop of Canterbury was prohibited yesterday by the Governor of Jerusalem, Major Keith-Roach, from replying to an address of welcome tendered him at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, says a report appearing to-day in the “Sunday Express” The Arohbishop protested that he would like to reply, the report goes on, but the Governor pointed out that it would disturb the status quo rights of the various Christian Communities to the Holy Places.

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