(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A petition that the League of Nations intervene with the Palestine government to allot a strip of land on Mount Moriah, Jerusalem, for the purpose of reconstructing Solomon’s Temple was tabled by the Permanent Mandates Commission at its session here yesterday.
The petition emanated from a group of individuals of the ultra-orthodox and Kabbalists in Jerusalem, headed by Rabbi Bresslauer.
Several petitions concerning Palestine. Syria and Southwest Africa were considered by the commission at yesterday’s session. The official communique issued by the Commission does not contain any particulars on the action taken.
The Permanent Mandates Commission yesterday concluded the examination of the report of the Mandatory Power concerning the administration of Iraq. In his report High Commissioner Dobbs gave a detailed account of the situation in the country. The British government has constantly instructed the High Commissioner to apply the Iraq principle: “the government of Iraq by the Irakis,” in the administration of the country.
King Feisul issued decrees on the basis of cabinet resolutions, following consultation with the High Commissioner.
In an interview with press representatives the High Commissioner declared that the political situation in Mesopotamia has become normal since the agreement reached with Turkey concerning the Mosul question. The governmental budget has, since 1922, shown a surplus. All conditions outlined by the international commission were fulfilled. Relations between Iraq and Syria are normal, he stated. The High Commissioner expressed his doubt of the possibility of establishing a Kurdian state.
Two hundred and fifty members of the Young Men’s Jewish Charities of Chicago attended a dinner at the Covenant club to inaugurate a drive for 1,000 new members in ten days. Judge Henry Horner, Judge Hugo Friend, Gen. Abel Davis and David D. Guild will direct the campaign.
Other members of the drive committee are Joseph Block, Adrian Eichberg, James J. Glassner, Miles Goldberg, Paul R. Kuhn, Philip Lieber, Frank Marshall, Philip Ringer and I.E. Segal.
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