During his last days, Mr. Julius Rosenwald gathered his five children about his bed, the J.T.A. learns to-day, and enjoined upon them their duty to complete his various charitable projects. Among these, he stressed that they must pay out the 2½ million dollars still due out of the 5 million dollar contribution which he pledged for the Jewish agricultural colonisation work in Russia and only half of which has been paid out. He also instructed them to pay at once the contribution of a quarter of a million dollars to the American University in Beirut, in Syria, which he promised in 1929. The University is a Protestant institution.
He also told them to pay out the million dollars which he pledged last summer to the City of Berlin for the establishment there of a dental clinic for children on condition that the City of Berlin guarantees its maintenance.
Payments to various Jewish and Negro undertakings are also included in Mr. Rosenwald’s last instructions to his children.
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