The recently appointed Wailing Wall Commission that will investigate the Moslem and Jewish claims to the Wailing Wall will leave for Palestine June 16, it was learned here today. The Commission, anxious to avoid the hot weather in Palestine at this time of the year will stay in the country only about two weeks.
It was learned today that Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of the American Jewish Committee, who had been named to represent the Jewish Agency before the Wailing Wall Commission will be unable to go to Palestine at this time. A successor to Dr. Adler is now under consideration.
The members of the Wailing Wall Commission, nominated by Great Britain and approved by the Council of the League of Nations, are Emil Loefgren, former foreign minister of Sweden; Charles Barde, a Swiss jurist and G. Van Kempen, a former Dutch colonial official.
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