2 1 2 D O C U M E N T S 1 9 6 , 1 9 7 F E B R U A R Y 1 9 2 6 196. To the World Union of Jewish Students Berlin, 13 February 1926 Dear Sirs, I greatly regret having to inform you that I have resigned my honorary position as king of the schnorrers[1] for good. Respectfully yours, 197. To Felix M. Warburg Berlin, 18 February 1926 Dear Mr. Felix Warburg, I am extremely happy that you are coming here, for this will much accelerate the realization of a constitution for the university approved and recognized by all.[1] I also see defects in the Munich system.[2] However, we exercised the utmost effort there to at least create provisional arrangement, so that serious mistakes are avoided for the time being. What aggravates the situation in Palestine is, aside from the uncertain financial position of our undertaking, the virtually complete absence of people in Palestine who are sufficiently educated and independent enough to make judgments con- cerning 1. the best use of the available funds. / What type of departments should be es- tablished?/ 2. the selection of the scientific personnel to be hired.[3] There is also the fact that the number of scientific personnel currently working at the university is thus far too small to be able to grant them, without risk, a major influence in the selection of the workforce to be newly hired. Moreover, some sort of modality must be found to generate interest among the Jewish scholars in Amer- ica and Europe in the university over the long term. We made very serious efforts in Munich to solve these problems. However, I am certain that not one of the individuals represented there will insist that the form we provisionally envisaged would have to be final. We very much regretted that there was also the situation that the Americans, who have contributed the most to the re- alization of the university, were so inadequately represented in Munich.[4] However, something had to be done to create reasonably clear circumstances and to prevent the hiring of incompetent men, as well as improper selection and se- quence in the establishment of departments.