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that's one you ca pin on me, if
Berkman's Biography Remarkable Story Of I you
credulously. 'You, my friend, ■
want to.'
haven't BEGUN to give the Jew- GPI
"ekey - Marcus, Jerusalem's Liberator
"From her husband, in soft ish state as much as it's given (
It takes a giant to cast a stu- began to understand the Zionist I burial in -
mockery: `Hickey's been con- you—and you probably never
verted.'
West Point on June
will. The mere existence of that m
pendous, lifelong, celestial and • idea, although he had never
30, 1948. He had promised
"Mickey turned quickly toward state is going to free you from
majestic shadow. ben a Zionist. Then, when the
PI
Emma
that
he
would
be
back
the
speaker.
'Not
converted,
complexes you don't even know 1=1
David Daniel "Mickey" Mar- Israeli military leader, Major
"the
end
of
June."
He
kept
his
Fred.
Educated.
Palestine
is
a
about.
It's
going to make you a I %I
cus was that type of person, Shamir, came to lfin in 1947 to
Em but in a tragic way for priceless experience for any better man—and a better Ameri-
and Theodore 0. (Ted) Berkman ask advice on a military adviser j Emma.
man.'
can.'
justifiably gave "the story of to be taken to the emerging Th
e widow recei ved a
I " 'Not priceless, exactly. We
po
Mickey Marcus, who died to state of Israel, whose
"There was no more talk of
es 'burnous award at West P oint
st I Jews in America have had to pay Palestine, either at Long Beach
save Jerusalem," the title "Cast I with the Arabs were flaring into
_ !a
bill
or
two.
Is
there
any
appre-
!memorial
services
in
1951,
ft
a
Giant
Shadow."
.
0m
; .
or during the drive home with
.
'grave seriousness, his life's i Israel's Prime Minister.
elation of that side of it?'
This magnificent biography course changed. It was. he
"Mickey stared at the man in- Emma. But alone on his way ""
traces
iColonel "Mickey" Marcus, th e ; Before the military funeral in
to the garage, Mickey reflected
published by Doubleday,
on his outburst at dinner. It had ' z
the life of a great American West Point graduate, the hero . his alma mater, there were Crib
crystallized thoughts and feel-
hero in the of various
capacities
--
the second world conflict,
utes to Marcus. after the funeral
th man who was honored b y ' cortege had marched before
ings long bubbling within him.
which made him beloved at ;the
t.,7,
I
his
fell
Behind
his ringing summation
West Point, on the war front,
fellow Americans, who had
thousands, at New York's
k's
lay
a
voyage
of
self-discovery
in
I
by his superior officers, by ; chosen himself to join in a bat- City Hall. General Taylor, Gov-
Palestine."
noted leaders in the legal pro- tie for justice, for the liberation ' ernor Dewey, Mayor O'Dwyer,
fession with whom he had , of his people.
Henry Morgenthau and many
worked in New York—and as I He first went to Palestine as other notables were there to pay
the idol of the Israeli masses Michael Stone. He Witnessed the honor to a great hero who pur-
who came to look upon him as emerging battles between Jews' sued the American idea that the
one of the most dedicated men and the British_ He saw the in- , world's democracy is not secure
in the struggle for Israel's lib- justice of British interference unless small nations like Israel
eration.
with Jewish liberation efforts. ' are free *
He was the man who I he was outraged by the dynes- 1
"achieved the miracle of free- miting of Ben Yehudah Street In the course of his brief ca-
ing Jerusalem" during Israel's in Tel Aviv by British soldiers I reer as a liberator of Jerusalem.
m.
.
struggle for liberation, and Is- His new aim in life began, and as a fighter for justice for Israel.
raelis learned to love him, to with it there emerged a heroism Marcus emerges as a lover of
admire his skill, to look to him that has already become indeli- the Talmud. as a great American
as the great genius whose guid- bly engraved in the history of who never abandoned his love
ance changed the course of Israel-
I for his people and his faith, as a '
COL. "MICKEY" MARCUS
* • •
events in the Israel-Arab war.
lover of poetry and of Shake-
Glubb Pasha, who led the Arab Marcus met with all important speare who could quote the Bard
Legion, knew and understood Israelis and with prominent endlessly.
it, and the Israeli leaders, from American Zionists. Twice before; He was noted as a great
Ben-Gurion down, appreciated leaving for his Israeli trips he drinker. He loved his whiskey.
it.
was the guest. with his wife !He also loved music and he was
Berkman's biography of Mar- Emma, at receptions at the home !a marvelous host. He emerges
cus traces his entire life, his of Dr. and Mrs. Emanuel Neu- as a marvelous human being, in
birth on Hester Street in New mann. He befriended Israel's addition to having been a great
York on Washington's Birthday notables. Moshe Sharett himself Imilitary hero. in the splendidly-
in 1902—the fifth child of an carne to talk to his wife— I compiled Berkman story.
immigrant couple from Ro- "Snippy," her husband called
11,
mania; the death of his father ' her—who had so little time with
Zionists
who
fall short of de-
when our hero was 9 years old; her military husband who
the family's struggle and its co- !plunged into every battle that fensive material in support of
IT IS A PLEASURE TO ANNOUNCE THAT
their
eir movement will do well to
needed some one to assure j
us- ; read the Marcus story and to be-
MELVIN WEISZ
lie was named David Daniel,
I come acquainted with thhero
e h
but the nickname "Mickey" was It was thanks to his genius i observations on the values of
HAS received the man-of-the-month award as the most
acquired because he constantly that the Burma Road — the 1 Zionism. He might have
been
outsanding Representative of our Detroit-Gold Agency,
followed his older brother, "Bigfamous Marcus Road — was built under suspicion when he first
for the month of July.
Mike," who had broken up a to enable supplies to be brought came to th
the aid of Israel because
The award is in recognition of his excellent service to his
gang of hoodlums
who were
Tel Aviv to embattled Jeru- he was never an affiliated Zion-
molesting
Jews. Because
the from
9-
policyholders and our Agency during this month of July
had rescued
New]
year-old trailed his brother, his salem.
city of He
Jerusalem
and a the
truce
. ist. But during the brief visit
he paid to his wife after setting
mentor. the neighborhood be- I was set. But a mere few hours into motion an improved mili-
gan to call him "Mickey," and beforqrthe truce, in the early I tary machine for Israel. before
the name stuck to him. Like his I: hours of the
morning, he stepped returning for the fatefully tragic
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brother
he refused
to be called
humil- I out of his tent in the village of end, Mickey was at a dinner in
fated when
he was
"sheeny." He fought back, Abe Ghosh. The guard then on New York at the home of his
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, duty recognized him and waved e brother Isidore. Berkman re-
whenever
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there was an insult, and ! to him. But the guard was lates:
when he was advised, at ca mp,
Ichanging
and
the
new
man.
whe re he and another Jewish boy I warning
"Mick was again in an intro-
wer subjected to ro
him. not hearing his spective mood. From time to
"Chuck" Gershenson says:
went,
e u fought against great I the crawling figure outdoors. : liver some mildly ribald anec
Marcus died in one of the most dote. but he was staying pointed-
his horns and he replied:
) heartrending
"Applesauce! My brother, Israel's
history. accidents in ly clear of a debate about Zion-
; ism that had begun at the other
Mike once told me—and he got
His body was flown back for end of the table. Emma sensed
it from our father—it's no good
I that the talk was beginning to
running away. Once you start, !
;make him uncomfortable.
you never stop!"
; N.Y. Legislators Back
And
so, "Mickey" never'
"Suddenly. stung by some ob-
bowed to humiliation, and that , Nea for Revision of
servation that he found intol
attitude may account for the, U.S. Policy in Mid-East:erable—Emma never found out
admiration he gained for the i NEW
YORK. (JTA) — Both ' exactly what it was
N
Mickey
Israelis, for his love of freedom i New York Senators and a bi- leaped into the conversation with
and his insistence upon follow- partisan group of 21 out of 24 ' both feet. you just don't know
ing through in every effort he I members of the House from the what you're talking about.' he
'
made to achieve justice five New York boroughs and cried.
'The Jewish state has AL
whether it was while he was ) Nassau County have endorsed READY achieved more than
Only the best is served
Deputy Commissioner of Cor-lan American Jewish Congress : enough to justify its existence
when the Gershensons
under LaGuardia, or an I call for revision of U.S. policy ; in the dignity it's restored to
entertain in their
assistant to U. S. Attorney in the Middle East. beaten human beings.' It's taken
Dewey, as a boxer, as a West The American Jewish Con- : the dispossessed and given them
charming home.
Point Cadet, or whatever task gress statement criticized "con-. status as free individuals--made
Naturally ...
he had undertaken.
them their own masters, in a
LAUDE R'S is included
tinued accommodation to Arab' them
* *
where they no longer
for its lightness and.
intransigence" and urged that
In Israel, Marcus learned to American policy in the Middle i need to report to anyone. If
good taste.
t
N
ou
admire the youth, and Ben- East be "re-directed" to achieve y
could see the way they live
Gurion, among the numerous the following four main goals: I—the hardships. the deprivation
tributes paid by him to Colonel
the pride and the warmth
1) Initiation of direct Arab- i I--but
Charles H. Gershenson.
an
Marcus, said to Haganah Chief
d the genuine LOVE that flows
President,
Israel peace talks; 2) the end- '
Israel Galilee: "This man un-
1
out
of
every
kibbutz,
every
last
Wayne Michigan
ing of Arab economic boycotts
Lauder's
derstands the youth of our coun-
I
settler'."
Building
Corporation
and blockades against Israel;
try better than many people 3)
One of
promotion of regional water,
"Mickey stopped. So did the
who have lived here for years." power and other projects “for • conversation. Then,
the
world's --
a
woman's
'
Marcus had been to Palestine
the common benefit of all coun-I voice—the wife of the man
three great
during his trips to the Potsdam
tries" in the Middle East; and !Mickey had so crushingly inter-
and Yalta conference as part of 4) the achieving of
light scotch
a perma-lrupted: 'I never knew you were
the U. S. team and then to the
IOC BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKIES,
whiskies
nent solution to the problem of i such a Zionist, Mickey.'
Nazi extermination camps. He the Arab refugees.
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