Warburg Says Marshall Laid Ground Work for Allied Drive Before His Death in Zurich

In connection with his statement on the coming conference for the organization of the Allied Jewish Campaign, Felix Warburg pointed out that Louis Marshall had, before his death in Zurich on September 11 last, laid the ground-work for the forthcoming campaign. After the Extended Jewish Agency was consummated at Zurich on August 14th, and Mr. Marshall was elected its chairman, it was Mr. Marshall’s intention to begin active preparations on his return home for a combined fund-raising effort for the Jewish Agency and the Joint Distribution Committee.

“It is highly gratifying to those to whom has fallen the great task of carrying on those tasks to which Louis Marshall gave himself so utterly, that in the Allied Jewish Campaign, Reform and representatives of radical Jewish opinion are uniting in a common effort which aims to meet, in a measure, the economic, cultural and spiritual needs of vast multitudes of their fellows in Eastern Europe and Palestine,” Mr. Warburg said.

“In this common effort,” he further stated, “all opinions on a number of Jewish questions are placed in the background, so to speak, though none is called upon to surrender one iota of his sincere convictions. Men, who in times happily past in American Jewish life, were unable to join hands with each other in many important Jewish movements, are joining hands in the Allied Jewish Campaign, making of the very issues which have heretofore divided them, the reason for united effort. This unity of effort is as fundamental to the movement as its fundraising days and it is being demonstrated by the personalities whose services we have succeeded thus far in enlisting in this campaign.”