Israel Sternly Accuses Syria

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

A plaque honoring the late Eleanor Roosevelt was pre-
sented to her daughter Mrs. James Halsted (left), of Birming-
ham, Mich., by Mrs. Clara Leff, outgoing president of the Pio-
neer Women's organization, at the PWO convention here. The
plaque will be used in dedicating a wing of the Tiberias Voca-
tion School in Israel to the memory of Mrs. Roosevelt, who
was an active supporter of the Pioneer Women's projects.

Ben Hecht Reminisces in 'Gaily,
Gaily' About Cub Reporter Days

So many of the characters
who made up both the under-
world as well as the normal
political and social sphere of
Chicago had crossed his path
when he was a young- renorter
that the recol
lections o1
Ben Hecht of
fer most fasci-
nating tales of
the earlier
decades of
this century.
A master-
stylist and an
excellent story
teller, Ber
Hecht has in
corporated
most impres
sive narrative
skills inti
"Gaily, Gail:
—the memoir
of a cub re-
porter in Chi-
Ben Hecht
cago," published by Doubleday.
Bandits, bums, lunatics, pros-
titutes, politicians, lawyers who
pass in review in the nine tales
in "Gaily, Gaily" hold the read-
er's attention and create admir-
ation for the narrative style of
the author who has been a
stormy petrel in many ranks.
Frequently, Hecht refers to
his Jewishness. In his story
"The Negreis," about Dido De
Long, "the most beautiful wo-
man I knew in my youth,"
Hecht relates how he pleaded
with her not to accuse all
white men of guilt against
the black, and he commented,
"I'm a Jew, and Jews hear
mean words now and then."
Whereupon Dido said: "You
can answer them, Mister Jew.
They can spit on you, but they
can't spit on your answers,
because they come out of a
white skin- They're white man
answers. White people kill
each other, but they can't si-
lence each other, not even
Jews. Jesus Christ was a Jew
and they killed him. And look
how his friends answered
back. If Jesus had been a
black man on that cross no-
body would have spoken up
for him, or written a book
about him . ."

In another story, "Some Law-
yers," Hecht makes the com-
ment that under different con-
ditions he would "have kept my
nose (and pencil) out of the
cause of Jewry." There are no
other references to the role he
played, in the Irgun activities
and in his recent book in which
he attacked many of Jewry's
and Israel's leaders.
There are, however, numer-
ous other references to Jews.
He writes nostalgically about
Sarah Bernhardt. He has an in-
teresting account of his collabo-
ration in playwriting with Ken-
neth Sawyer Goodman. He re-
calls how both had established
a theater in the Jewish ghetto
near Maxwell Street and he
writes inter alia:
"Of the dozens of plays we
wrote, the best ones were
about Jews with an American
ghetto bickground. I doubt
whether Kenneth had ever
run into any Jews before
meeting me. Nor had I any-
thing to do with Jews since
leaving home, or ever thought
of them as a reporter. In fact,
in those Chicago years, I for-
got entirely that I, myself,
was a Jew, and remained for-
getful of that oddity for 30
years. Nevertheless, when I
took to writing dramas with
Kenneth, it was either Jews
or bums I wrote about . . ."
Maxwell Bodenheim, with
whom Hecht had had many run-
ins, figures in one of the remi-
niscences. Many notables figure
in these tales. "Gaily, Gaily"
again brings to the fore Ben
Hecht as one of America's most
distinguished authors.

LOUIS KRONENBERGER,
noted author and drama critic,
has been appointed librarian at
Brandeis University, it was an-
nounced by Brandeis President
Abram L. Sachar. Kronenberger,
a resident of New York where
he was a drama critic for 23
years, has been professor of
theater arts at Brandeis since
1952.

Rudolf Lipschitz, a 19th cen-
tury German Jewish mathema-
tician, was one of the leading
pioneers in pure and applied
There are such and other so- mathematics. His major contri-
ciological and other factors butions were in the fields of
which arouse interest in Hecht's theory of functions and ad-
recollections.
vanced analytics.

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. —
The United Nations Security
Council Wednesday f aced a
series of sessions on an Israeli
complaint against Syria, as Israel
formulated its grievance in the
sternest language, accusing Sy-
ria formally of a "grave act of
aggression" in violation of the
1949 armistice agreement be-
tween Israel and Syria. Israel's
acting permanent representative
here, Ambassador Joe Barromi,
who phrased the proposed agen-
da item on instruction from his
government, thus indicated that
Israel attaches utmost import-
ance to the current Syrian
developments.
In spite of Israel's demand
for an urgent meeting, it seem.-
ed Wednesday that the council
might not get together until
Friday afternoon at the earliest,
and possibly not until Monday.
One reason for the delay is that
most of the top ambassadors on
the 11-member Council are out
of the city now. Another reason,
it is believed, that Syria may be
asking its friends on the Coun-
cil, behind the scenes, to post-
pone action until the Damascus
government decides on a line
of defense, possibly by making
some counter-charges against Is-
rael. Syria's ambassador here,
Najmuddine Rifia, has already
consulted with Secretary-General
U Thant, reportedly maintain-
ing that "the Israeli claims are
totally unfounded."
Israel's formal letter to the
Security Council reiterated the
charges of aggression against
Syria made public Tuesday,
promised the Council members
to furnish them with a detailed
list of aggressions by Syria since
December 1962, and concluded
with this significant statement:
"The continuance of the state
of affairs described above has be-
come intolerable to the govern-
ment of Israel, which is respon-
sible for the protection of the
lives and property of its citi-
zens and the integrity of its
borders. The government of Is-
rael, therefore, desires urgent
consideration of this complaint
by the Security Council in order
that Syria should be condemned
for the warlike and aggressive
actions of its armed forces, and
that all such acts should forth-
with be brought to a halt. The
government of Israel wishes to
draw the attention of the Se-
curity Council to the gravity of
the situation and to the danger
to the peace inherent in any
further deterioration."

* . * *

Work Resumed
in Ashmura

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to The Jewish News)

TEL AVIV — Israeli field
workers resumed normal labors
Wednesday in the Ashmura
area near the Syrian border
after a tense night in which
the Syrians, obviously fearing
reprisals for recent border at-
tacks, focussed huge search-
lights to illuminate the area.
Israeli off i c i a Is continued
their investigation of the border
shootings and the air battle
Tuesday. They reported that
parts of a Syrian Mig-17 were
found scattered in Israeli fields
south of Lake Tiberias, confirm-
ing reports that Israeli pilots,
flying French-made Mirage Jets,
had shot down one of a group
of invading Syrian Migs.
They also reported that a
fire was started at the Massa-
dah Kibbutz as a result of
burning splinters from the
downed plane. Two fuel tanks,
jettisoned by one of the flee-
ing Syrian jets, fell in the
Menahemia fields well within
Israeli territory. These find-
ings were cited in support of
Israel's charge that the Syrian
planes had penetrated Israeli
airspace Tuesday before they

were attacked by Israeli in-
terceptors.
It was disclosed that the
French air attache in Israel has
asked Israeli air force headquar-
ters for details of the air clash
Tuesday, indicating that it was
the first time the Mirage had
been involved in a battle. France
has made the speedy Mirage its
first-line interceptor but no op-
portunity has yet developed for
a test of the jet under actual
battle conditions. This was the
case also with the French-made
Mystere Jet which had its first
"baptism under fire" during the
1956 Sinai Campaign.
Discussing the air battle
Tuesday, Air Force Comman-
der Ezer Weizmann told a
night press conference that
"we will not tell you how it
was done, but we did manage
to get them at a tactical ad-
vantage somewhere up around
3,200 feet." He said there
were between six and eight
Syrian Migs against two Is-
raeli Mirages.

Tuesday's reports from Syria,
claiming there had been a land
battle between Syria and Israel
along the frontier, was denied
here Wednesday by an official
spokesman for the government.
He said "There is not a word of
truth" in the Damascus report.

Cherniak-Brudner
Engagement Told

MISS ELLEN CHERNIAK

Mr. and Mrs. Archie David
Cherniak of Victoria Ave., Wind-
sor, Ont., announce the engage-
ment of their daughter, Ellen
Leslie, to Herbert Brudner, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brudner,
also of Victoria Ave., Windsor.
Miss Cherniak attended the
University of Michigan where
she was affiliated with Alpha Xi
Delta sorority. Her fiance is an
alumnae of Assumption Univer-
sity and a member of the Insti-
tute of Chartered Accountants
of Ontario. A Labor Day wed-
ding is planned.

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Plaque Honors Mrs. FDR's Memory

