Western Union Cablegram from Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, Sr. to Jacob Schiff

Morgenthau, United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, appealed to his friend, Jacob Schiff in New York for assistance for the Jews in Palestine, who had been cut off from traditional sources of aid due to the outbreak of World War I. Within days, Schiff, with the assistance of New Yorkers Felix M. Warburg and Louis Marshall, had raised $50,000 for the cause.