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This week the New York Times blossomed with a full-page advertisement featuring a cablegram from Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine: "We appeal to American Jewry to share the undaunted but calm courage of the Jewish community of Palestine and to strengthen their efforts by contributing generously to the funds of the United Palestine Appeal. . . . The Jewish community is behaving admirably despite the trying provocation...
...done by us at any time in any way. That is one of the discreditable actions which is foreign to our history and it is foreign to our tradition, and we never did such a thing in our lives." Fortunately for the Morgan partners, a cablegram showed that they had offered the British a credit of up to $100,000,000 to help keep sterling from slipping...
...early as Aug. 3, 1914, Morgan & Co. received a cablegram from Rothschild Freres of Paris suggesting a loan of $100,000,000 to France. Morgan answered that because of exchange conditions, they could not make the loan and would not do so, in any event, without the U. S. Government's consent. In answer to an inquiry from Morgan & Co. Secretary of State Bryan then announced that loans by U. S. bankers to any belligerent nation would be inconsistent with the country's "true spirit of neutrality." Two months later Mr. Vanderlip told French Ambassador Jusserand that National...
Ethiopia's Emperor, advised by his Maine Yankee alter ego, Mr. Everett Colson, set the counter trap of demanding in a cablegram to Geneva that The Deal be scrutinized by the entire League Assembly in which minor nations have the majority, though they have never dared to make effective use of it. If once he could get 40 or even 30 little nations squawking. Emperor Haile Selassie knew they could be counted on to make the world's welkin ring in his favor...
...Addis Ababa the receipt by a U. S. cameraman of a jocular cablegram from his home office, "Presume Addis next; suggest you pick out shelter now," leaked out to cause virtual panic as thousands of natives grabbed their rifles and bolted pell-mell out of the Capital, thinking it was about to be bombed...