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�ucctm in the newspapers," he uaid. And in answer to the newa that the might effect a compromise
of 1300,000 in its suit against him- "I intend to bring suit against the Government for twice that amount."
He had two fist fights in Paris because his courage was questioned, and invited reporters to his rooms to give testimony that if anyone bore the marks of the encounters it was not he. "I used to be a boxer," he explained proudly.
Even t.ne Yiddish press grew uneasy as reports began to fifter into this country of his quarrels and adventures in Europe. Not even to members of his own race did he make concessions, and it must be admitted they began to regard him with suspicion. What sort of a Jew is this? In Warsaw he declined to meet the Jewish pressmen or mingle with any Tews. (Just the same the Polish press nad to DC warned by the Government not to abuse him as a Jew � was he not an American?) Even his own people began to be rather dubious as to whether his exploits reflected entirely to the credit of the Jewish people.
There was some haste, therefore, on the part of the American press to explain that, while Levine might approach Lindbergh in daring (and Levine was something of an amateur in the hero business), yet he was far deficient in certain moral qualities, andfcertainly a less outstanding personality.
As a matter of fact, it is perhaps in the last that Levine chiefly outshines hie
Nordic rival. For some tastes, let it be whispered, Lindbergh is too much the glorified Boy Scout, which is to say he is loyal, brave, trustworthy, dignified and public spirited, if not always cheerful. Levine, on the other hand, is a true individualist, who gives not a rap for his foes and critics, who drives hell-bent ahead, and leaves his friends to do the explaining behind. What if he is vain glorious and boastful? Who will not say with Bill Nye: "I luv a rooster becaws he crows and becaws he has claws to back up his crow with"?
Those who love him cherish particularly that rotogravure photograph of all the eighteen or more trans-Atlantic flyers, taken beside the Nation's Chief before the White House. On this picture Levine sticks out, as the common expression goes, like a boil. While all the other seventeen or more flyers are gazing obediently at President Coolidge, Levine is perversely staring in the opposite direction. He is the shortest person present, counting even Ruth Elder, and it looks suspiciously as if he were standing on his toes.
But enough of weary comparisons; enough of apologia and analysis. Let the exploits of this remarkable young man�why is one surprised to find that he is not middle-aged but thirty?� speak for themselves. Let us turn Dack to the files of the newspapers where they are enduringly inscribed.
Even to the story of the flight itself as Chamberlin tells it for the New York
Herald-Tribune. Scene: mid-air; the cockpit of the "Columbia." Characters: Clarence Chamberlin, pilot; Charles Levine, passenger. To looi*- at them you would thi^k the one is a peppery business man taking a ride in a taxi, of which the other is the driver. So it is no surprise to discover them arguing.
There ia plenty to argue about. Chamberlin has announced that the gasoline supply will not last; Levine has discovered that the oars for the collapsible rubber boat had been left behind. Moreover, the indicator to the electric compass has broken. All of which Chamberlin considers more than ample reasons for turning bactf. "What," Chamberlin asks Levine, "do you wish to do about it?" "I'd rather be buried in Davy Jones' locker than face that newspaper gang in New York," Levine says with vehemence.
And all the way over Levine worries because he has the payroll of his company in his pocket, having absent mindedly forgotten to leave it behind. "It would be a shame to drop into the Atlantic with all that money in my pocket," he observes.
Even more exquisite is the "real inside" story of how they missed Berlin.
For miss it they did. Not theirs the swift unerring flight of Lindbergh, who landed in Paris as if drawn to the spot by some magnetic influence. In somewhat less precise fashion did Chamberlin and Levine reach their goal�or rather one of their goals, for when they left New
York they were rather vague as to whether their destination was Berlin, Paris or Rome.
"When we got over Essen," says Chamberlin, "I thought we were over that town, but Charlie thought we were over Bremen. He said he had been there. I had never been to Essen. When Charlie was resting, I would fly in the direction I thought Berlin lay from Essen, but when he relieved me as pilot, he would fly in the direction he thought Berlin lay from Bremen."
They landed first in Eialeben, 105 miles west of Berlin. As a bit of aerial navigation, their trip left something to be desired: but they broke the record for the trans-Atlantic flight. It was inevitable that Levine, missing one mark, should hit one as great. He is a Litvak.
Leaving Eisleben for Berlin, they blundered again, were lost in fog, and suffered a forced landing in a marshy field at Klinge, 70 miles southeast of Berlin, where a good crowd of citizens waited to welcome them, grew tired and went home cursing the Jews. . . .
Despite their little difficulties on this crazy voyage and later, the good-natured Chamberlin seems to have been the only man to properly appreciate Levine. To this day they appear on excellent terms with each other, and they were both more or less in high good humour while they toured Germany. Not until they reached Paris did they sever relations, and Chamberlin, in addition to establishing the world's long distance flight
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record, also ha* the more rare distinction of being the only pilot hired by Levine who was able to complete the contract. To the very end Chamberlin insisted loyally that the only point of difference between them was that, "I want to go back by boat; he want* to go back by plane. I am going back by boat; he is going back by plane. So everybody is happy. '
A slight unpleasantness did arise, however, from Levine's unhappy challenge to Commander Byrd, who had by this time reached Paris. Failing to appreciate the serious�8cientific and diplomatic purposes underlying all trans-Atlantic flights, Levine suggested that they race back home. Ignorant Litvak that he was, he thought nying was some sort of a game, which he had just discovered he played as well as any.
Dismayed at this breach in the ethics of transoceanic flying, Chamberlin hastily denied all responsibility for the cable that contained the challenge. Levine had, as a matter of fact, signed for both. Levine, snubbed again, said little or nothing.
In Paris, after the restraining hand of Chamberlin was removed, Levine, with the best intentions, committed an even more serious breach of etiquette. He had learned his lesson that flying was not sport, but statesmanship. Why, then, could he not become an ambassador of good will, -1 ike Lindbergh? It must have appeared to him a particularly tactful gesture to suggest tnat a French pilot take him back home. He chose the Frenchman Drouhin.
But, incomprehensibly, the French chose to become incensed. The reasons assigned were that Drouhin was the only French aviator whose preparations for an Atlantic flight were so tar advanced as to justify the hope a start might be madt that year. And if Drouhin were to fly with an.American, and in an American plane, the glory of the achievement would not be 100 per cent. French.
Somehow Levine received a greater share of the abuse than did the Frenchman who had consented to the arrangement. Amiably Levine offered to make the flight in a French plane, which offer was rejected. Bewildered as he must have been at the sudden storm, as usual he gave no apologies, and proceeded stubbornly witn the work of preparing for the flight.
Before lon^, however, he was in serious quarrel with Drouhin over the terms of their contract.   In characteristic fashion, Levine began making overtures to English pilots,    Drouhin got wind of the scheme to supplant him, and there ensued, as the Herald-Tribune put it, "an argument as stormy as. one between two persons not speaking the same language cou]d be."    Drouhin threatened an injunction, and  Levine  retorted  by  at-temptingto remove the motors from hi� plane.     The  Frenchman  countered  by placing his friends on guard.    It was a merry    warfare,    and    on   one   occasion blows  wo re  passed   between   Levim'  ami the    Kntflish speaking   interpreter-friend of Drouhin,  a  man  who towered  a  foot above   the   testy   JittJe   Jewish    business man.
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