Rabbi Clears Up Issue of Melee Near Synagogue (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) NEW YORK — A Hasidic rabbi said Wednesday that he believed that the various ethnic groups liv- ing in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn were satisfied that a Saturday night incident involving Jews and Puerto Ricans did not represent a racial clash. Following the incident, Capt. Gerald Corin, 90th Police Precinct commander, invited representatives of the various groups to meet with him to discuss the melee. The rabbi, Hertz Frankel, said he un- derstood the meeting was amicable. Rabbi Frankel is principal of the United Talmudical Academy of Cong. Yetev Lev, center of the Satmar Hasidic movement in Wil- liamsburg, headed by the Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum. The incident occurred after sundown Saturday when about 2,000 Satmar followers left the synagogue to escort Rabbi Tietel- baum home, as is their custom after Simhat Tora. A car driven by Servino Lugo, 40, of Man- hattan tried to drive through the crowd. Rabbi Frankel said that Lugo tried to drive through the right lane of the one-way street, where the Hasidic Jews were congregated, although the left lane was free. The Jews, some annoyed and some concerned over the possi- bility that some of them might be injured, pushed at the car and broke one of its lights. Lugo finally drove away but later returned, ac- cording to Rabbi Frankel, declar- ing he was after "the guy who broke my light." The crowd then battered the car again. It was at this point that a 16- year-old Satmar follower allegedly kicked a detective and was arrest- ed. He was released for a Juvenile Court hearing. Rabbi Frankel said the boy did not know that the man he kicked was a police officer. The rabbi said the plainclothes detec- tive was accompanying Lugo and two friends and did not identify himself as a police officer. Rabbi Frankel said that Lugo did not file any charges and that the only aftermath of the incident was the 16-year-old youth's arrest. 'Frisco Drive Reaches Peak SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — The 1966 Jewish Welfare Federation campaign, which has not yet been completed, reached the highest total in its history, exceeding $2,- 080,000, which was the total raised during the entire 1965 drive. 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Salpeter relates in his article that many details about B-G are revealed in numerous newspaper articles. He states in his special feature: Amidst the welter of details that came to light in those articles, there were some that even his most intimate friends did not know. It came to light, for example, that this hard-boiled statesman, who by all accounts does not have much appreciation for the fine arts, actually wrote poems—in- cluding love poems—in his younger years. One enterprising journalist dis- covered in some dust-covered archive even a play by young Ben-Gurion, writ- ten under the pen-name of "Dreamer." Another newspaperman discovered some theater reviews penned by David Green (his original name), reviews that, in the best tradition of blood- thirsty theater critics, tore to pieces the shows reviewed. Also discovered was the fact that Ben-Gurion's late father, one of the leading figures of the Plonsk Jewish community, corresponded (in cali- graphically written letters) with Theo- dor Herzl, founder of political Zionism. And to one of the many newsmen who interviewed him on the eve of his birthday, Ben-Gurion admitted that in 1914 he learned Turkish and went to Istanbul University, because he ex- pected the Turkish Empire to survive World War I and retain rule over Palestine. He hoped to become a mem- ber of the Turkish Parliament and sec- retly dreamed of the possibility of becoming a Cabinet member in the government of the Ottoman Empire and in that capacity he would protect and foster the Jewish settlement of Palestine. In recent days it has become a favorite subject of conversation in Israel to try and analyze the reasons for this sudden outburst of love and admiration for the Old Man — even among some of his until now fierce opponents. Many believe that there is a hidden guilt complex among Israelis who feel that they have some- how "betrayed" Ben-Gurion by reject- ing him when they so massively voted for Eshkol instead of for Ben-Gurion's new Rafi Party in the last election. Friday, October 14, 1966-13 Shanghai Jewry Shrinks a base for imperialist aggression in the Middle East. When the two leaders met, Mr. Ben- Gurion was chairman of the World Zionist Executive in Jerusalem and a fugitive in Paris. His colleagues in the executive had been detained by the British authorities and he was wanted as a "subversive." Ho Chi Minh had been a leader of the Vietnamese under-ground that had fought the Japanese. After the Allied victory over the Japanese he went to Paris to discuss independence. Mr. Ben-Gurion told Mr. Segev that each day for two weeks Ho Chi Minh would come down to his room or he would climb a flight of stairs to the Vietnamese leader's quarters. "He didn't use Communist slogans," Mr. Ben-Gurion said, adding that "he clearly wanted to give the impression" that he was a "nationalist leader." Mr. Ben-Gurion told the book's author that he had been able to judge how Ho Chi Minh's negotiations were proceeding by the length of the red carpet in the Vietnamese leader's hotel. At first, the red carpet extended from the street to Ho Chi Minh's door. In stages, it was removed from the pave- ment outside, the lobby and the stair- case. "When the carpet outside his door was removed," Mr. Ben-Gurion told the book's author, "I knew the talks had failed and sure enough, a few hours later, he came to my room to say good-by. "He was tired, worn out and dis- appointed, and he told me nothing re- mained but to fight. A few weeks later, the Indo-China war started." When Vietnam was partitioned in 1954 at a conference in Geneva, Israel supported the agreement and thus ex- tended de facto recognition to the Hanoi and Saigon regimes. Ho Chi Minh did not establish re- lations with Israel; North Vietnam cultivated the Arab nations. The then President of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, accepted Israeli tech- nical aid but did not establish diplo- matic ties. Earlier this year the government of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky proposed an exchange of diplomats. Ministers in Premier Levi Eshkol's Government have been divided on the subject and no decision has been made. by the World Jewish Congress. NEW YORK (ZINS) — Out of a The tiny community, however, total of 25,000 Jews in Shanghai keeps up contacts with Jewish before World War II, only 20 have organizations throughout the remained, according to a report world. 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Mr. Ben-Gurion said he had thanked Ho Chi Minh and had said the suggestion would be con- sidered at the appropriate time. Ho Chi Minh, who had hoped to achieve his country's independence in 1946 Paris negotiations, had to wait until 1954, Mr. Ben-Gurion became the Premier of the State of Israel in 1948. There are no diplomatic ties be- tween the governments today. Ho Chi Minh has recently denounced Israel as W. German Insists Gift to Israel Had No Strings BONN (JTA) — Axel Springer, the West German publishing mag- nate, reiterated at a meeting here with Israeli officials that there were no conditions attached to his offer of a gift of $1,000,000 to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. He also insisted that he had never asked that his name be com- memorated in connection with the gift. He met on the issue with Asher Ben-Nathan, the Israeli ambassa- dor to West Germany, M. Chou- raid, Jerusalem deputy mayor, and Daniel Gelmod, the museum's ad- ministrative director. 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