Sir John Chancellor, the ex-High Commissioner of Palestine, received yesterday Mr. H. A. Goodman, Secretary of the Political Executive of the Agudah World Organisation, the J.T.A. is informed. Mr. Goodman expressed to Sir John, the statement says, the thanks of orthodox Jewry throughout the world at the sympathetic manner in which problems of independent orthodoxy had been dealt with in Palestine during Sir John Chancellor’s High Commissionership.
Sir John, it proceeds, renewed his keenest sympathy for Jewish endeavours in the Holy Land, and especially for the work of orthodoxy there, and said that he was gratified at the opportunities which had been presented to him from time to time, to assist in this direction.
The Agudath Israel has also been active in other directions in connection with the situation in Palestine, and it announces that Rabbi Dr. Pinchas Kohn, of Vienna, and Consul Sally Guggenheim, of Basle, members of the Political Committee of the Agudah World Organisation, have seen in Geneva M. Marinkovitch, the Jugo-Slavian Minister of Foreign Affairs, who is President of the League of Nations Council Affairs, who is President of the League of Nations Council and its Rapporteur on Mandates, and discussed with him the present situation in Palestine, and the questions to be dealt with by the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations.
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