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1914 Robert Morgenthau US Ambassador to Treaty

In a letter to the financer Jacob Shiff:

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Cablegram

Received at 16 Broad Street, New York

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Yenikeuy So

Jacob Schiff

New York

Palestinian Jews facing terrible crisis belligerent countries stopping their assistance serous destruction threatens thriving colonies fifty thousand dollars needed by responsibility committee Dr. Ruppin Chairman to establish loan institute and support families whose breadwinners have entered army conditions certainly justify American help will you undertake matter

Morgenthau”