Following the protests by the Jewish population of Palestine and the Zionist Congress against the permission granted by the Palestine Government to the Moslems to continue building operations on and near the Western Wall of The Temple, the Supreme Moslem Council has lodged its protest charging that the Jews are infringing the status quo at the Wailing Wall.
In cablegrams to the British Colonial Office and to Sir John Chancellor, High Commissioner of Palestine, who is now in England on a vacation, the Moslem Supreme Council complained that the Jews are infringing the status quo at the Wall. They are not carrying out the policy defined in the White Paper on the Wailing Wall, the Council declared, adding that it suspects a connection between the protest and the Zionist Congress.
A similar cable signed “Worshippers at the Mosque of Omar,” declared:
“If the Jews do not observe the status quo a great religious conflict will arise between the Moslems and the Jews.”
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