From the Holy Mountain Which is Jerusalem I Felicitate You with a Glad Heart Chief Rabbi Kook Writes

From the holy mountain which is Jerusalem, I felicitate you with a glad heart on your 60th. birthday, Chief Rabbi Kook, writes in a message to Mr. Felix M. Warburg, which he is transmitting to him through the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Mr. Rutenberg and Dr. J. L. Magnes, Chancellor of the Hebrew University, have also sent messages of congratulation to Mr. Warburg.

Colonel Kisch has sent a message to Mr. Warburg through the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, in which he recalls how Mr. Warburg was called to fill the place vacated by the late lamented Louis Marshall, finding the burden become heavier than anyone had dreamed owing to the British policy pursued in Palestine and the financial collapse in the United States, and yet Mr. Warburg, in spite of everything, bore his burden squarely and cheerfully, until he felt that Lord Passfield’s actions and words had placed him in a false position. Yet his relinquishment of his office as Chairman of the Jewish Agency Administrative Council, Colonel Kisch writes, has not meant any relaxation of his endeavours on behalf of Palestine and the Jewish people. Colonel Kisch pays a glowing tribute to Mr. Warburg’s remarkable capacity for bringing people together for the advancement of any purpose which appeals to him as right and useful. He is a great organiser of team work, he says. He is the most modest of men, he adds, effectively conscious of his powers, but completely indifferent to power. May the coming years, he concludes, yield him continued happiness, with some well-earned relief in the burden of his services to the Jewish people, among whom he stands out as a distinguished, noble and most lovable figure.