Evening star., 1959-06-26
By BETTY BEALE
Star Stah Writer

to his friends as Brownie"
got his official send-off yes
terday afternoon as Ameri-
can Ambassador to Israel.
The former young pub
Usher of the New York Her
aid Tribune. who sur
mounted Senate opposition to
his confirmation by being
able to give factual replies to
all questions on Israel, was
feted with his very pretty
wife by the Israeli Charge
d'affaireS and Mrs. Herzog.
Sunday the Reids fly from
New York to Tel Aviv with
three sons. three dogs ana
one cat. The dogs include a
13-year-old La brador re-
triever. an English cocker
spaniel and a golden re-
triever. The new Ambassador.
family and menagerie, will
land in Israel Monday night.
Receiving with them and
the hosts yesterday was the
other honor guest and last
American Ambassador to Is
rael. Edward Lawson. who
is now head of the Career
Service Development pro-
gram at the State Depart
ment. He returned to the
United States three months
ago.
SECRETARY OF COM =
MERGE and Mrs. Lewis
Strauss arrival at the par
ty spanked considerable in
terest. The Secretary, who
can remain in that post If
he chooses until Congress ad-
journs and who accompanied
the President today to the
dedication Of the st. Law
renee Seaway, would not say
when he is resigning or what
he will do though I think
he has already decided on
his future course. He still
says only that he plans to
take a holiday at his Brandy
Rock Farm in Virginia.
Morehead Patterson chair
man Of the board of Amer
ican Machine g. Foundry
and a friend of Admiral
Strauss was conSoling him on
his defeat by the Senate.
To cheer him up he re-
called to him the poem in
the volume, Poems in Praise
of Practically Nothing" that
tells how Alexander the
Great, Julius Caesar, Napo-
leon and others is high places
also met defeat. The poem
ends, he told Secretary
Strauss, thusly: IF God re-
ject his own elect, what the
hell do you expect?"
His listener chuckled, told
him he knew the volume and
that it was by Samuel Hoff-
stein.
NEW YORK REPRESENT
ATIVE JOHN NEY,
chairman of the State De-
partment Appropriations
Subcommittee, was there
with his wife. Asked why 1t
was that American diplomats
abroad got so little entertain
ment allowance that they had
to dig into their own pockets
to entertain members of Con-
gress travelling abroad, Mr..
Rooney said the State De-
partment got all it asked for
this time, and the diplomats
shouldn't entertain the visit
ing Senators and Congress-
men, he added with a smile.
NeWbold Walmsley, Stuart
Rockwell and Murat Williams
we're there from the State
Department, the latter to
head for Israel soon as coun-
selor at our embassy in Tel
AViv.
Deputy Assistant to the
President Bob Merriam and
his wife dropped by the Her
zogs' house, which is near the
Israeli Embassy, and so did
Oscar Chapman, Judge and
Mrs. Jack Martin. Special As
sistant to the President and
Mrs. Rocco Siciliano, the
Ambassador of Iceland and
Mrs. Thors, the Jack Sim
monses, Economist Bob Ma
than and the David Gins
burgs.
X
AT THE ALPHANDS' EN-
BASSY GARDEN PARTY any
number Of good-bys were said
by Capitalites about to take
of for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Woods Bliss we're at their
last party before leaving at
$50 this morning for Europe