24 OCTOBER 1941, Page 4

In declaring that the late Justice Brandeis had been per-

haps the greatest living Jew, Dr Chaim Weizmann was pay- ing a tribute which many people, including, I suspect, Justice Brandeis, would have paid to him himself. But Brandeis was undoubtedly the greatest Jew in America and one of the very greatest jurists. President Wilson strengthened the Supreme Court notably by elevating him to its bench in 1916. I only met him once, more than twenty years ago, but the occasion was notable in that I was introduced by the man who is so essentially his spiritual and professional successor (as well as his biographer), Justice Felix.Frankfurter, appointed to the Supreme Court by President Roosevelt, as Brandeis was by Wilson.

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