bers of refugees from Germany. Please accept my very best wishes for the continued successful progress of the Corporation, which I am sure is a source of deep pleasure to all who are associated with it. “
Professor Felix Frankfurter in his message stated, in part, “My allegiance to the Jewish upbuilding of Palestine dates from 1914. In the course of these twenty years I have familiarized myself with almost everything written about it. But not until I had seen with my own eyes the extraordinary accomplishment of these twenty years did I have any adequate conception of the stimulus and help which the Palestine Economic Corporation is furnishing.
“You have had a major share in the development of public works and public utilities, whereby a sound agricultural as well as an industrial life are furthered. You have promoted, in Palestine Potash, an industry which will increasingly mean much to Palestine as well as to the world outside. But your share in these large enterprises has always been directed with a view to building up a national life of cultivated, self-reliant and high-spirited men and women. For you have never lost sight of the central fact that all economic enterprise must ultimately justify itself as an instrument for the well-being of the men, women and children that compose a society. “
Bernard Flexner, chairman of the board, also spoke.
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