The seventy-fifth birthday of Mr. Henry Morgenthau, former American Ambassador to Turkey, was celebrated yesterday by a dinner in his honour given at the Bronx House, the settlement he and Mrs. Morgenthau founded nearly twenty-five years ago.
Messages and telegrams of congratulation were received from President Hoover, Governor Roosevelt, Lieutenant-Governor Herbert H. Lehman and Mr. Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War.
Mr. Morgenthau’s philanthropic activities have also included the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies and the endowment fund of the Hebrew Union College.
Born in Germany, Mr. Morgenthau was educated at the College of the City of New York and at Columbia. He became Ambassador to Turkey in 1913. In 1919 he was appointed by President Wilson to head the American commission to investigate the massacres of Jews in Poland. After the Peace Conference he toured the United States in favour of American adherence to the League of Nations. He was Chairman of the Greek Refugees Settlement Commission created by the League of Nations.
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