867n.404Wailing Wall/139: Telegram
The Consul General at Jerusalem (Knabenshue) to the Secretary of State
[Received 9:32 p.m.]
At the request of the British High Commissioner, who returned August 29, I had a long, friendly, cordial conversation this morning with him. He confidentially confirmed the facts as to appointment of a commission of inquiry (reported in my August 30, 10 p.m.44). Not one Moslem, he said, had expressed regret for either the disturbances or their consequences, while even the Grand Mufti’s early efforts to quell the Moslems were due to the emphatic instructions issued by the Government to him. I expressed to him substantially the statement in the last paragraph of my August 30, 12 p.m., and he replied that the Egyptian situation is none too reassuring and that he was uninformed as to what would be the Labor Government’s attitude in London in regard to sending additional troops to Egypt and Palestine.
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