In presenting to the Hebrew University Library a portrait of David Wolfsohn, colleague of Theodor Herzl and after the latter’s death president of the World Zionist Organization, Jacobus H. Kann said that if Wolfsohn were alive and heard of the attacks on the Jewish population in Palestine he would have rushed there to fight, if necessary, shoulder to shoulder with his fellow Jews.
Kann, who is a well-known Dutch Zionist and banker, and a member of the old Herzl group of Zionists, declared that, despite this, Wolfsohn, as a wise man would have recognized that the Jews and Arabs in Palestine were bound to arrive at an understanding but he would not have advocated a definite policy under pressure. As a practical man, said Kann, Wolfsohn would have stopped for the present all unfriendly measures, talk and writing, but he might have invited the instrumentality of a neutral person to prepare the way for both parties coming together.
Dr. Judah L. Magnes, chancellor of the University, presided, and Dr. Hugo Bergmann accepted the portrait on behalf of the Library.
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