90 Friday, Sephoief 25, 1961 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS We wish our family and friends a very healthy happy and prosperous New Year KARL and MOLLY BERG nzrizri rIzIzt rUtr5 THE BRUMMER FAMILY wish all their friends and relatives a happy and healthy New Year DR. and MRS. DAVIS BENSON wish all their family and friends a year filled with health, happiness, joy and peace wish all their family and friends a year filled with health, happiness, joy and peace A very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year to all our family and dear friends SAMUEL and JEAN CASCADE J& FAMILY Toppti Nut gear ',I/1111 J! Ir•!! /H . ',lir laIrd 11/1 bra /Ih. it,Ippwr••• r NEW YORK (ZINS) — British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher "almost wept" during the recent economic summit in Ottawa when the subject of Menahem Begin came up. According to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, she said she could never forgive Begin for hav- ing ordered the hanging of two British sergeants in June, 1947, when he was commander of the Irgun Zvai Leumi. (The two soldiers were hanged after the British mandatory authorities hanged seven captured Irgun members. The British fill Iminl./H,1 Jennie and Sol King stopped executing Jewish prisoners after the two sergeants were hanged). Trudeau, quoted by Hearst reporter John Wal- lach, also said that Mrs. Thatcher still held the re- taliation' against Begin and . pledged that she would never meet with him unless she "absolutely had to" be- cause of the hanging of the sergeants. William Safire of the New York Times asked Begin about his reaction. He said: "Two years ago, I went to London on a private visit and Mrs. Thatcher invited me to 10 Downing Street for a Hirshhorn Thought Museum Was Good Deed for Jewry By JOSEPH POLAKOFF EVELYN and JACK MUNSON 11,1, Begin Doubts Rift With Thatcher WASHINGTON — On the last day of shiva for Joseph Hirshhorn in his walled, four-story, art-filled home just off Washington's famous ambassadorial quarter, some 20 men joined in the morning prayers and to recite the kadish. Those present included Chicago Congressman Sid- ney Yates, dean of the 26 Jewish members of the U.S. House of Representatives; Daniel Beerstin, the Libra- rian of Congress; Sol Linowitz, President Car- ter's representative in the Egyptian-Israeli-American autonomy negotiations, and novelist Herman Wouk. Held in the elegant draw- ing room on the mansion's second floor, the minyan was in keeping with Hir- shhorn's devotion to his heritage in his personal way. For all the splendor of the works of art in his home and in the gardens behind the walls, he was to it that a simple mezuza was per- manently fastened to the door post of the front entrance. "He was always very favorable about his Jewishness," Washing- ton lawyer, Ira Lowe, said. "When he talked of his museum he would say, on occasion, 'It. can't hurt the Jews.' He felt the museum was his way of contributing a good deed of lasting importance — in perpetuity — on behalf of the Jewish people. It was his mitzva." Lowe said that Hirshhorn "didn't collect Jewish art as a separate pursuit but he collected Jewish artists — not because they were Jews but because they were good artists." Stephen Weil, de- puty director of the Hir- shhorn Museum, agreed he did not collect specifically Jewish ceremonial art. "He was not in that area at all," Weil said. Among his last activities, Lowe recalled, was his attendance at the showing of "Image Before My Eyes, the film of Polish Jews be- fore the Nazi invasion. He liked to read the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer and treasured a copy of one the Nobel Laureate had a u- thographed for him. The question of naming the museum for Hirshhorn was raised to the level of an inquiry in the 1979s. Was the U.S. government ob- liged under the Johnson- Hirshhorn agreement to use Hirshhorn's name? Elmer Staats, then the Controller General, ruled that if the government did not use his name then, under the agreement, Hir- shhorn could withdraw his commitment. And so, in Oc- fober, 1974, the Joseph Hir- shhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden was opened. luncheon, completely kosher, with a rabbi pre- sent. I was very grateful to her. I didn't invite my- self; she invited me. "Then when I was re- elected I got from her a very heartwarming cable of con- gratulations. Why she said she ■ A mid see me only when it w. necessary, I don't know. `-;(:) the story may not be true." DD.I0 MID May the New Year Bring Health, Peace and Happiness to all WrI371 MVO . nlir5 our friends, TO ALL OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS ESTHER al HARRY DINES and the entire Philip, Stereo & Riva WE WISH OUR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES A HAPPY. HEALTHY NEW YEAR MURRAY ad RUA HARTZ relatives community JOHN, EVA, ROBERT and ANDREA MAMES A very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year to all our family and dear friends THE EPSTEIN FAMILY HERSHEL & GAIL, DAVID & DANNY llapplined gear- 7 11 "Shana Tow 1981-5742 To The Entire Jewish Community. Cadillac Asphalt & Paving Co. & Clawson Concrete Co. subsidiaries of (.749 CO ini2ang