- There the banker told of a famous “journalist,” a Jew by birth only, who,
when raising the question of the Jewish condition directly to the czar, was roy-
ally snubbed.
54.Unless otherwise noted, all material in this section is drawn from my article,
“Abrogation” (see n. 30), which gives a fuller analysis and documentation of
the abrogation campaign.
55.Cohen, Encounter with Emancipation, p. 236.
56.Reel 22, Schiff to S. Wise, 17 Nov. 1910, to Mr. Feinberg, 2 Dec. 1910; AH, 25
June 1909.
57.Reel 22, Schiff to W. Taft, 24 July, 3 Aug. 1908, to O. Straus, 4 Dec. 1908;
Cohen, Encounter with Emancipation, p. 237.
58.Reel 691, Schiff to W. Taft, 29 Oct. 1909; Adler, Schiff, 2:150; AJC archives,
“Minutes of the Executive Committee,” 20 Feb., 29 May 1910; Cohen, En-
counter with Emancipation, p. 237; Morton Rosenstock, Louis Marshall (Detroit,
1965), p. 55.
59.AJC archives, “Minutes of the Executive Committee,” 29 May, 26 Sept. 1910;
reel 22, Schiff to C. Adler, 16 Aug. 1910; reel 679, Schiff to A. Ochs, 28 Apr.
1911; Laserson, American Impact on Russia,pp. 434–37; Charles Reznikoff, ed.,
Louis Marshall, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1957), 1:88; NYT,27 Nov. 1911.
60.Reel 22, Schiff to C. Adler, 16 Aug. 1910, to M. Sulzberger, 23 Dec. 1910;
Reznikoff, Marshall,1:59n.
61.Reel 681, W. Taft to Schiff, 23 Feb. 1911; AJC archives, “Minutes of the Exec-
utive Committee,” 19 Feb. 1911; Simon Wolf, The Presidents I Have Known
(Washington, D.C., 1918), pp. 294–310; Reznikoff, Marshall, 1:78–87. Schiff
later denied that he had purposely refused to shake hands with Taft. Reel 1985,
Schiff to S. Wolf, 24 May 1918.
62.Reel 22, Schiff to C. Adler, 27 Jan. 1911. Afraid of a charge that they were
dominated by the Jews, the organization tied the passport issue to the case for
Jan Pouren.
63.AJC archives, “Minutes of the Executive Committee,” 20 Feb. 1910; NYT,1, 6
Dec. 1911.
64.Wolf, Presidents I Have Known, pp. 310–17; Archibald Butt, Taft and Roosevelt, 2
vols. (Garden City, N.Y, 1930), 2:625; William Howard Taft papers (Library
of Congress), W. Taft to W. Barnes, 11 Feb. 1911, to Hart Lyman [8 Apr.
1911], to O. Bannard, 17 June 1911, to H. Taft, 25 Nov., 3 Dec. 1911, O. Ban-
nard to Taft, 5 Nov. 1911; reel 22, Schiff to J. Mack, 16 Oct. 1911.
65.House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Termination of the Treaty of 1832 With
Russia, 62nd Cong., 2nd Sess., 1911, pp. 66–67.
66.Reel 692, Schiff to W. Taft, 7 Dec. 1911; reel 684, 12 Dec. 1911; Butt, Roosevelt
and Taft, 2:796; Taft papers, W. Taft to C. Taft, 2 Dec. 1912.
67.AJC archives, “Minutes of the Executive Committee,” 25 Dec. 1911; reel 22,
M. Warburg to Schiff, 1 May 1910; reel 697, Schiff to W. Wilson, 25 Mar.
1915; Schiff papers (JTS, Jerusalem), Schiff to C. Adler, 14 Jan., 25 July 1916,
C. Adler to Schiff, 24 July 1916, F. Brylawski to C. Adler, 4 Aug. 1916; Dearborn
Independent, The International Jew, vol. 2 (Dearborn, Mich., 1921), pp. 206–7. - Reel 677, Schiff to L. Marshall, 11, 15 Aug. 1912; Cyrus Adler papers (AJC
archives), W. Wilson to C. Adler, 21 Oct. 1912; Reznikoff, Marshall, 2:1152–55.
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