GUEST EDITORIAL

of Hope Dinner Planners Anticipate
City of
Response to Cause Breaking All Records

All records for responses. to ap-
peals in behalf of the City of Hope
are expected to be broken at the
53rd annual champagne dinner to
be held tomorrow night at Hotel
Sheraton Cadillac.
Morris Sukenic, president of De-
troit "Businessmen's City of Hope
group, sponsors of the dinner, and
Jack Beckwith and Max Sosin, co-
chairmen of the dinner commit-
tee, anticipate an overflow at-

tendance, based on reservations re-
ceived as of Wednesday.
Wtih Margaret Whiting of TV,
stage, radio and movie fame; Bob
Melvin, TV comedian, and Miss
Arlene Dahl, noted columnist, on
the entertainment program, the
sponsors state that they have ful-
filled a pledge perenially repeated
—to provide the best in show busi-
ness for City of Hope affairs.
There will be dancing after the

Israel Cabinet to Fu action
as Caretaker Government Till
Knesset Mks New Coalition

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Is-
rael Cabinet decided to submit its
formal resignation and to continue
as a caretaker government until
the Knesset, Israel's parliament,
approved the formation of a new
government.
The move was proposed by Jus-
tice Minister Dov Joseph, who
noted that it was the course con-
sistent with democratic procedure.
Eleven bills to which there is
no political opposition will be first
on the Knesset's agenda when the
newly elected body convenes Mon-
day. These items include proposals
for moving all advertising signs
to a distance of at least 100 yards
from public highways and restric-
tions against the pollution of sea
water by oil tankers.
The first session of the Knesset
will be opened by President Zal-
man Shazar, who will then turn
over the chair to former Premier
David Ben-Gurion who is the oldest
Knesset member. Deputy Prime
Minister Abba Eban presided over
Monday's cabinet meeting in the
absence of Premier Levi Eshkol,
who is on vacation.
Eshkol's Mapai - Ahdut Avoda
alignment won a total of 45
seats in the balloting, according
to the official election returns
announced by Supreme Court
Justice Moshe Landau, chairman
of the national election commit-
tee. In the last Knesset, the
alignment had 41 seats.
Based on the official returns,
Herut - Liberal (Gahal) list was
alloted 26 seats, compared with
27 in the last house; the National
Religious Party, 11 seats compared
with 12 in the last Knesset; Ben-
Gm- ion's Israel Worker's List
(Rafi), 10; Mapam, 8, compared
with 9 in the last Knesset; Inde-
pendent Liberals, 5; Agudat Is-
real, 4; the pro-Arab Communists,
3; Poalei Agudat Israel, 2; the two
Mapai-affiliated Arab lists, 2 each;
the pro-Israel Communists, 1; and
Haolam Hazeh, 1.
Justice Landau said that 1,244,-
706 Israelis, representing 83 per
cent of the eligible voters, cast
ballots in last week's elections,
and that 37,978 votes were declared

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based on a distribution of 9,881
votes per seat.
Eshkol is considering a new
coalition cabinet of 18 ministers,
compared with 16 in the outgoing
cabinet, following the agreement
by the opposition Mapam party to
discuss joining the next coalition,
the newspaper Davar, -the Histadrut
organ, reported. The enlarged cab-
inet would be made up of 10
Mapai representatives, two from
Ahdut Avodah, three from the
National Religious Party, two from
Mapam and one Independent Li-
beral.
Few personnel changes were ex-
pected in the new cabinet. Dov
Joseph, the outgoing justice min-
ister, was expected to be named
an ambassador, with his portfolio
slated to be offered to the Inde-
pendent Liberals.

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Levin's 'Stronghold
Gains New Acclaim
Despite Time's Slur

Although rescued by recent
major reviews calling it "a master-
piece," Meyer Levin's new novel,
"The Stronghold," was all but
killed by an early review in Time
magazine which called the book
"mawkishly pro-Semitic," the
author declared in a radio inter-
view with Mimi Benzell on her
New York program. With no other
reviews for the public to go by
for a few weeks, the negative
effect was enormous, Levin said.
(The Time slur was rebuked in
The Jewish News, Nov. 5.)
Then the Saturday Review ap-
peared, calling "The Stronghold"
"a masterpiece of story-telling";
the Los Angeles Times called it
"a masterpiece, breathtakingly ex-
citing and profoundly significant";
the Milwaukee Journal compared
it favorably to Kafka's "The
Castle." On the air, one com-
mentator after another expressed
astonishment at the Time evalua-
tion, each praising "The Strong-
hold" unreservedly, especially for
its characterization of an S S
officer drawn from Adolph *Eich-
mann, and its timely clarification
of the sources of anti-Semitism,
confirmed by the Vatican.
While the effect of the review
in Time has not yet worn off,
Levin said, sales of "The Strong-
hold" are mounting each week.
The author pointed out that his
works have long been under politi-
cal, non-literary attack by anti-
Zionists. In addition, Levin said,
he has lately become the target
for neo-Nazi attacks. A hate letter
from Berkeley, Calif., for instance,
threatened that future "Ausch-
witzes, Buchenwalds and Sachsen-
hausens" were being prepared for
, writers like the author of "The
Stronghold."

An Undersized Dream
A henpecked husband complained
to his analyst that he dreamed al-
most every night that he was ship-
wrecked on a desert isle with 14
be a u t i f u l maidens. "What's
wrong with a dream like that?"
joked the analyst. "What's
WRONG?" screamed Mr. Henpeck.
"Have you ever had to cook for
14 people?"

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
12—Friday, November 19, 196S

City of Hope's Accomplishments

dinner and the program of enter-
tainment at tomorrow's affair.
Participants in the program in
addition to Sukenic will include
Eugene Epstein and Saul Katz.
The principal address of the
evening will be delivered by
Louis Yabak, past national presi-
dent of City of Hope, the famed
Duarte, Calif., health and re-
search institution that is aided
by funds raised by the Detorit
Businessmen's Group.
Two leaders of the group who
recently returned from a visit at
the hospital in Duarte, Morris
Sukenic and Irving Herman, spoke
with enthusiasm about their ex-
periences.
Herman said: "There is a new
horizon's approach to the research
conducted at City of Hope. The ac-
complishments in locating causes,
the care given patients, the con-
cern that is especially shown to
children patients, have left their
deep impression upon us. We were
moved by the courtesies, by the
dedicated labors of the physicians
and their assisting staffs. And all
the services at City of Hope are
given without charge. We are
laboring for a great cause."
(Morris Dukdnic, referring to
the editorial comment in The Jew-
ish News deploring conflicts in
dates of organizational affairs, pro-
tested against a bond event to
be held tomorrow night in con-
flict with the City of Hope dinner.
He maintains that City of Hope
cleared the date and was misled
by competitive efforts that, he in-
sists, should and could have been
avoided.)

By MORRIS SUKENIC
President, Detroit Businessmen's Group for City of Hope

Detroit Jewry's response to our call for cooperation in
our support of the City of Hope Medical Center located in
Duarte, California, has been so gratifying, that we feel hearted
and go forth to our annual event, this Saturday night — the
annual champagne dinner-dance — with increased enthusi-
asm.
My experiences at the great non-sectarian medical center,
during my visit there recently, have convinced me anew that
the research work conducted by a staff of skilled scientists
will be of great benefit to humanity—as some of the center's
results already have shown.
Distinguished physicians, including cooperating doctors
in Detroit and elsewhere, are contributing towards the great
work of the City of Hope.
People of all faiths have given us encouragement in our
efforts. We are grateful for them and we pledge continued
services in the advancement of the health requirements to-
wards which our dollars make themselves count in the form of
a healthier nation.

Haifa Zealots Attack
Emergency Workers

HAIFA (JTA) — Nine ultra-
Orthodox Jews were arrested here
after they had stoned postal work-
ers making emergency repairs on
the Sabbath.
A spokesman for the police said
that the workers had been digging
in the downtown section of the city
in order to gain access to faulty
communication lines. The repairs
had been authorized by the gov-
ernment.

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