Representatives of Britain’s three major political parties paid tribute last night to Viscount Samuel, first High Commissioner of Mandated Palestine and world renowned philosopher on the occasion of his 85th birthday. They spoke at a dinner arranged by a committee of leading British Jews under the auspices of the British Friends of the Hebrew University.
It was announced at the dinner that the Friends would raise funds in Britain for the construction of a wing at the Hebrew University’s library to hold Lord Samuel’s collection of philosophical writings; the section will be named “The Herbert Samuel Wing”. Lord Samuel said that the library wing would “enable me to link hands with the minds and thoughts of generations to come.” He also noted that there is “only one university, in Jerusalem, able to combine the whole body of human knowledge with that spiritual striving which for thousands of years has been indigenous in the soil of the Holy Land.”
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