Suffering from fatigue (1937)
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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
Weizmann and Ben-Gurion rightly believed that Felix felt threatened by a Jewish state, which, he now said, would disenfranchise world Jewry and would be governed solely by those “who live in Palestine, vote in Palestine and belong to its government.”37 Though Felix got the executive committee of the Joint to condemn partition, the larger battle had been lost. A few weeks after the conference, on October 18, 1937, Felix suffered a heart attack. The pain, he joked, was nothing compared to what Weizmann had inflicted upon him.38 Torn apart by the partition dispute and worried about Max and his family in Germany, Felix had labored under a double strain.
chapter: 31 - Partition