7 giug 1917 anni - LETTER: Louis Brandies to Jacob DeHaas June 7, 1917 Washington, D.C. ·Lewin-Epstein confirmed to depart. ·Frankfurter's departure decision by tomorrow. ·Party departs on June 16. ·Morgenthau authorized unlimited AJRC spending. ·Draft news item for approval today. ·Avoid publicity for Blackstone Memorial. ·Morgenthau arranging salary for Lewin-Epstein Letters of Louis D. Brandeis. Vol. 4 (1916-1921) pg. 296-297

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To Jacob deHaas
June 7, 1917 Washington, D.C. [deHaas Mss]
DEH: Wired you to call at Morgenthau's 11 tomorrow. [*] satisfactory arrangement made & he would tell you.¹
1. Lewin-Epstein is to go.
2. Felix Frankfurter will probably go, or that decision will probably be made tomorrow.
3. The party starts June 16.
4. Morgenthau is to get from AJRC authority to spend without limit whatever needed.
5. He & FF are to draft this P.M., news item to be submitted to Lansing & me for approval.
6. It is unwise to have any publicity re Blackstone Memorial at present.
7. Morgenthau will arrange with Dept. for salary for Lewin Epstein. Do not say anything to anyone yetexcept that Lewin Epstein must be prepared to start.

Sub Notes:
1. In the so-called "Morgenthau mission," the former ambassador to Turkey set out on an abortive and rather bizarre scheme designed to pry Turkey loose from her alliance with the Central Powers; but the mission was also intended to investigate the treatment of Palestinean Jews and plead for an end to the reported atrocities. The effort had official State Department status. During the planning for the trip, deHaas was nervous about the chance that Morgenthau might return from Palestine with a strongly unfavorable recommendation about the wisdom of creating a Jewish homeland there. Such an eventuality, he feared, would be "a means of undoing us." He wanted to accompany Morgenthau himself, or at least have Rabbi Wise go. Morgenthau judged, however, that anyone with such strong and blatant Zionist credentials might make negotiations with the Turks impossible. Frankfurter was settled upon as a compromisesympathetic to the Zionist view and in the confidence of LDB and the others, but not well enough known to be a "red flag" to the Turks. As it turned out, the Morgenthau mission was a fiasco, and at Frankfurter's urgent request the State Department ordered the ambassador back home. See William Yale, "Ambassador Henry Morgenthau's Special Mission of 1917,'' World Politics 1 (April 1948): 30820.

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