"The successive blows of contending armies have all but broken the back of European Jewry, and have reduced to tragically unbelievable poverty, starvation and disease about 6,000,000 souls, or half the Jewish population of the earth.
The Jewish people throughout Eastern Europe, by sheer accident of geography, have suffered more from the war than any other element of the population."
Tells Sad Plight of Jews
New York Times,
12 November 1919
Nice house, Felix.
Felix was a grandson of Moses Marcus Warburg, one of the founders of the bank, M. M. Warburg (in 1798). Felix Warburg was a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co..
He is known as a leading advocate of a Federal Reserve System for the United States.
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