2 0 2 D O C U M E N T 2 0 7 J U N E 1 9 2 8 three sons with him to Palestine to help build up the country by doing unpaid man- ual labor.[10] More than anything else, his sacrifice and influence produced the re- alized ideas of the university.— What you and I did from “safe ports” in Berlin and New York is far less.— Of course, I don’t for a moment put myself in your class instead, I humbly join the many admirers who love you proudly and sincerely, but because even among us Jews there are so few Einsteins and so few Magneses, such people must not de- nounce one another on different sides, and when you officially call Magnes deceit- ful or accuse him of sabotage,[11] then a tone is set that we unfortunately so often have to witness in Zionist circles even there in our country.— I ask you therefore, take these words hastily scribbled down in the gray morning as the morning prayer of a person who is acting at the moment for the cause that has to do with the point in the world where three religions assert the principle: Love your neighbor as yourself, as though it were their invention.— I now come to your proposal and have numbered the lines in order to avoid mak- ing this document too long “because I did not have time to make it shorter.”[12]— Everyone certainly is in agreement about page 1, and we are happy to see that your instruction is not incompatible under three conditions (118)[13] Page 2—1 and 2 and 3. Certainly true and (218) your proposal of a leading figure already accepted in principle.— Also no objections to the executive organ. 301–10 I feel that if a brain like Einstein so far hasn’t wanted to lead his univer- sity’s council, why should a single younger brain like Brodetsky[14] have omni- scient enlightenment.— 312—20. I would gladly give a vice-chancellor who has proven himself a long contract, but not immediately, without a probationary year—centralized and re- sponsible leading power (406–408) is too much Mussolini for American ideas— and puts his colleagues in a dangerous dependency on him and hinders full coop- eration.— 414–25 we are of the same mind.[15]— 501–508 your current position takes every influence[16] 510 Exclusively in one hand is dangerous 519 I gratefully recognize the term Dozenten Kollegium 605— small committee very desirable, but 615 Problems that are secondary in nature could become a bone of contention, because hardly definable.— 623–27 completely in agreement with your view[17]
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