On the Record

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, October

By Nathan Ziprin

Letter From Jean Ennis about 'The Enemy Camp'
Jean Ennis of Random House is apparently one of those rare
public relations people who read the books they publicize. Her
latest letter to me is a defense of Jerome Weidman's best seller
"Th Enemy Camp," which came under my lashing. The lady is of
the opinion that the marriage in the book was only one aspect,
and a minor one at that, of the protagonist's problem and that
the hero's feeling for Dora was "merely a symbol of his need
to remain faithful to the teachings of his childhood."
It appears to me that Miss Ennis' interpretation of the
characters is exactly the reason why we thought the book not
only deficient but misleading. Nowhere in the book are we even
given a glimpse into the Jewish background of the hero nor
why he detested the people in the "enemy camp." -Sure enough
his aunt taunted him • calling him "sheigetz" or "shikse" lover
whenever she found him in comraderie with goyim, but that lady
is certainly not the prototype of a Jewish mother. She had never
known wedlock, never raised children and could not therefore
have exerted any maternal, intellectual or religious influence on
the orphan she was raising. Miss Ennis calls the hero's marriage
to a shikse a "minor" aspect of "the protagonist's prOblem." To
us it is the very essence. One of the scenes in the book depicts
a "Jew-goy" flareup between the hero and his wife. It is, of
course, all patched up, but the reader is left wondering what
happens after the curtain has fallen on the book. In Miss Ennis'
opinion the hero's bondage to Dora was "merely a symbol of
his need to remain faithful to the teachings of his childhood."
But how can a creature like Dora, who was once drawn to a
brothel, be a symbol of any man's "need to remain faithful" to
the teachings of his childhood. Dora Dienst, if she was a symbol
of anything, it was of poverty, squalor, amorality, depravity and
rootlessness. It was precisely because George Hurst was com-
pletely unrooted that he ended up with canopy in the enemy
camp. He could of course have crossed that threshold even if
he were grounded deeply in genuine Jewish roots. But in that
event he would have at least have groped with tragedy and agony.
But George Hurst's struggles are mundane, superficial and
almost artificial.
The most merciful thing that can be said of Weidman's ap-
proach is that it is shallow. The danger of that sort of writing
rests in the fact that it creates the impression that all is empti-
ness and drabness in the Jewish tent except the will to leave.
There is no reason why serious novels dealing with Jewish char-
acters should be overburdened with distortive pictures of Jewish
life. Even novelists remote from Jewish life might surmise that
while the essence of Jewish living encompasses the intermarriage
theme there are other and more important facets.

Gets Army Award

NAOMI BENJAMIN, 28,
was the only woman in a
group of five civilians chosen
to receive decorations for ex-
ceptional civilian service
from Secretary of the Army
Wilbur Brucker in Washing-
ton. Miss Benjamin devel-
oped a method for identi-
fying radiation victims in
case of nuclear war.

Lifsitz Named Israeli Currency Counterfeited by
Egypt Creates Economic Problems
Commission s
Nasser regime in return for
property has re-
MILAN, Italy — Counterfeit sulted in the arrest here of an
Chief Engineer Israeli currency given to Egyp- confiscated
Egyptian Jewish refugee.

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

Sol Lifsitz, prominent De-
troit Zionist and a leader in
the Detroit Technion Society.
on Tuesday was elevated to
the post of chief engineer of
the Wayne County Road Com-
mission.
Lifsitz, an engineer with the
commission for 32 years, and
Mrs. Lifsitz live at 18050 Bir-
wood. They have one son.
For many years active in the
Zionist Organization of Detroit,
Lifsitz also is one of the guid-
ing spirits of the Detroit Tech-
nion Society, which devotes it-
self to services in behalf of
the Israel Technion in Haifa.

Returns German Medal
After Slander by Consul

UNITED NATIONS, (AJP)—
Dr. Max Beer, representing a
leading Swiss paper here and a
veteran UN correspondent, aged
72, has returned a West German
decoration received on UN day
last year because of an incident
in which a German Consular of-
ficial reportedly called him "a
dirty Jew."
According to a reliable source,
Dr. Beer had been informed that
the German Consul, Dr. Hans
von Saucken, had employed the
slanderous term in conversation
with other people.
Enraged and receiving no sat-
isfaction from other Bonn offi-
cials here in New York, Dr. Beer
cabled President Heuss and in-
formed him of the incident.
This week an envoy of Presi-
dent Heuss, Prof. Meyer Linder-
berg, arrived in New York and
immediately contacted Dr. Beer,
promising that he will conduct
a full inquiry.
Dr. Beer, a former Correspon-
dents Association President and
the only one in the UN press
corps who had covered the
League of Nations all through
its existence, is looked upon by
his colleagues here as an excel-
lent newspaper who has not
missed a single session of the
United Nations since 1945.

Israel's Right of
Passage Through
Aqaba Ascertained

WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Is-
rael's. "legal right" of innocent
maritime passage through the
Gulf of Aqaba was cited by Ar-
thur H. Dean, chairman of the
U.S. delegation to the recent
United Nations Conference on
the Law of the Sea, in an article
on the "Freedom of the Seas"
in the new issue of Foreign Af-
fairs quarterly.
According to Dean, the con-
vention adopted at the confer-
ence should be interpreted as
making clear "that there shall
be no suspension of the right of
`innocent passage' of foreign
ships, including warships,
through straits which are used
for international navigation be-
tween one part of the high seas
and another or to reach the ter-
ritorial seas of another state."
"This represents a significant
reaffirmation of freedom of the
seas and clearly applies to the
Arab - Israeli controversy over
the Strait of Tiran, giving Israel
a legal right of innOcent passage
through the Gulf of Aqaba to
the Red Sea," he emphasized.
Dean, a close associate of Sec-
retary John Foster Dulles, re-
ported that "the heated dispute
over Israel's right of passage
through the Strait of Tiran con-
necting the Gulf of Aqaba and
the Red Sea unfortunately col-
ored the attitude of some of the
Arab countries toward the law
of the sea and caused certain of
them to vote for the Soviet prop-
osition regarding the breadth of
the territorial sea." The inter-
national maritime conference to
which he referred was held in
Geneva.

tian Jews expelled in late
1956 and early 1957 by the

Immigration to Israel
Again Reported Rising

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

JERUSALEM — Immigration
to Israel is rising again and
will reach 5,000 in October,
S. M. Shragai, head of the Jew-
ish Agency immigration dept.
reported Wednesday. He de-
scribed the new immigrants as
"good material" for agricul-
tural settlement.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, who
was chairman of the meeting
at which Shragai made his re-
port, discussed his South Afri-
can tour during which the cur-
rent United Jewish Appeal was
successfully launched.
He also reported on prepara-
tions for the international
convention of world Jewish or-
ganizations scheduled for mid-
October in London. He said
that after the London confer-
ence he would leave for the
United States to attend the
national convention of Hadas-
sah and the Zionist Organiza-
tion of America.

British Labor Urges
Guarantees for Israel

BOURNEMOUTH, England,
(JTA) — A five-point resolu-
tion calling for an international
guarantee of Israel's borders
and a replacement of Israel's
armistice agreement with neigh-
boring Arab states by a "real
peace" was unanimously
adopted by the Trade Union
Congress, representing more
than 9,000,000 workers in
Britain.
The resolution urged: 1.
Agreement by the Great Powers
to work for the establishment
of peaceful relations in the
Middle East; 2. A large-scale
development program under
United Nations auspices for the
entire Middle East; 3. An inter-
national guarantee for Israel's
frontiers; 4. United Nations ef-
forts to transform the armistice
pacts into peace treaties
through direct Israel-Arab ne-
gotiations; 5. Constructive solu-
tion of the Arab refugee prob-
lem through resettlement with
external aid.

Israel Gets Congress'
Refugee Tracing Files

Vatican Protests Israeli
`Who Is a Jew' Law

The World Jewish Congress
in New York has transferred to
Yad Washem in Israel about
60,000 index cards compiled by
the special WJC Location Serv-
ice which was established in
1942. This closes a chapter in
World Jewish Congress activi-
ties during whiCh about 25,000
families displaced or separated
by the Nazi onslaught were
reunited.
WJC offices in Geneva, Stock-
holm, Buenos Aires, and other
capitals participated in the
search action, and in 1995 the
Congress set up a department
in. London that was later ex-
panded into the European Trac-
ing Office.

TEL AVIV, (JTA) — The
newspaper Haboker asserted
that the Vatican's representa-
tive in Israel, Msgr. Vargani,
had submitted a written protest
against the new Israeli regis-
tration regulations which per-
mit anyone who considers him-
self a Jew to register as a Jew.
The churchman was under-
stood to have taken the position
that to permit registration as a
Jew without the religious cere-
mony was tantamount to invit-
ing non-Jews to become Jews.
The Israeli authorities, ac-
"Science owes its effective
cording to the paper, consider
the entire question as an inter- ministry as much to the inter-
nal matter for Israel and expect pretative mind as to the crea-
tive mind." —Glenn Frank
no foreign intervention.

The refugee, Moise Choueka,
40-year-old Cairo-born Jew, was
picked up by the local police
when he tried to turn in the .
counterfeit bills to several Mi-
lan banks. He was found to
possess a considerable quan-
tity of currency which he said
had been given him in Cairo
in exchange for property he
was forced to sell before leav-
ing Egypt. He said he had no
idea that the money was coun-
ter f ei t.
The Italian police have re-
ported the case to Interpol,
the international police agency,
and the United Arab Republic
authorities have been asked to
cooperate in tracking down
the counterfeiters. Observers
here believe that the Israel
economy might suffer if large
sums of counterfeit Israeli cur-
rency makes its way into the
international market.

Private Hebrew Lessons

MR. MAX GORDON

For many years an instructor in
the United Hebrew Schools, now
accepts private lessons for the
study of Hebrew and the prep-
aration for Bar Mitzvah.

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