Mr. Warburg—“Except Mr. Kahn, yes.”
Senator Bristow—“Was Mr. Kahn ever an American citizen?”
Mr. Warburg—“No.”
Senator Bristow—“He never was?”
Mr. Warburg—“No; he is a British subject.”
Senator Bristow—“He is a British subject?”
The Chairman—“He lives in England, does he not?”
Mr. Warburg—“No. At one time he thought he would move to Europe, and that was when the question arose of his standing for Parliament; then he changed his mind and moved back to the United States.”
Senator Bristow—“He was at one time a candidate, or a prospective candidate for Parliament, was he not?”
Mr. Warburg—“No; he was not; but there was talk about it; it had been suggested, and he had it in his mind. Something had been written about it in the papers.”—(P. 76, Senate Hearings, August 3, 1914.)
So, that if Mr. Kahn is a citizen of the United States now, which as a matter of fact has been disputed, then he has been a citizen of three countries, Germany and Great Britain being the other two.
Mr. Kahn, by the way, is one of those Jews whose adoption of another form of faith brings no denunciation whatever from the Jews themselves. A most peculiar circumstance! But doubtless not inexplicable. Mr. Kahn is not called a “renegade Jew” nor any of the other nasty names heaped upon Jewish converts to Christianity, because he does not deserve them. They would not fit him. He is not renegade. And he never was regarded