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THE SOIL OF THE EARTH 261
American branch retained any interest in European politics, they held the old-fashioned Hungarian attitude toward the Dual Monarchy and the German alliance. The Dual Monarchy was a convenience, a temporary arrangement binding them to no loyalty of sentiment toward Germans either of the north or of Austria. But the blow had fallen; willing or unwilling, their European kinsmen must go into the ranks. The thing was stripped to its human values — pure calamity. Before the war ended, thirty-eight men of the Zukor-Kohn-Kaufmann connection abroad wore uniforms; and after we entered, eight of the American branch. Young Eugene Zukor, far below draft age, enlisted in the Navy. A1 Kaufmann became a captain in the Signal Corps, fought overseas, then remained abroad to manage Paramount’s European theatres. Matching notes after the war, one of the American clan found that he had lain for a week in the trenches firing at an Austrian company in whose ranks served his own cousin!
During the first two years, the American clan, and Zukor especially, helped support the women and children among their European kinsfolk. They, like all women and children of Europe, were struggling along with farm and shop while the breadwinner fought at the front. Owing to his temperament. Rabbi Arthur Liebermann was a special problem. His brother sent remittances for his support and comfort. They lasted just one day. The Rabbi would collect the money, take it to the