The Wailing Wall is sacred only to the Jews, is one of the chief conclusions contained in the still unpublished report of the International Wailing Wall Commission of the League of Nations, the J.T.A. here learns, thus upholding the principal contention made by the Jewish side during the sittings of the Commission that only the Jews regard the Wailling Wall as a shrine for devotions, ### case with the ###osloms.
The tone of the report appears to be generally favourable to the Jewish case, although the practical recommendations may be to some extent disappointing to those Jews who had expected that they would accord the Jews greater degree of liturgical freedom than the Commission has found was considered customary, and thus coming within the scope of the status quo.
The use at the Wall of the Scroll of the Law and of other appurtenances which the Jewish side had been willing to waive during the private negotiations, in the hope of attaining a friendly settlement with the Moslems, appears also to have been recognised by the Commission.
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