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The Strange Case of Pius XII
A-1
•
A Bit of Israeli Humor
During I s r a e l's war and
austerity years, one man
thought that the trouble was due
to the Hebrew alphabet. He said
there were too many letters in
it. Hebrew has 22 letters in the
alphabet. Were they necessary?
he asked; 21 letters, he said,
would be enough.
Which letter, he was asked,
would you eliminate?
Beth, he answered, for there
is no basar (meat), bayit (house)
begged (cloak). True, he said,
there is Ben-Gurion, but is it
worthwhile just for one name to
retain the letter?
Another solution for the food
shortage was a change in the
calendar of the holidays. It was
proposed that Rosh Hashanah
be limited to one day and Yom
Kippur, the fast day, be made
two days instead of one.
19th Century Hebrew Poet
Jacob Eichenbaum, a 19th cen-
tury Hebrew poet and mathe-
matician, born in eastern Galicia
at the end of the 18th century,
was largely responsible for pro-
moting the study of mathematics
among East European Jewry. He
translated into Hebrew the Ele-
ments of Euclid and w r o t e
numerous Hebrew textbooks on
mathematics.
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LONDON—Why did Pope
Pius XII not intervene vigor-
ously and emphatically when
he knew, as he must have known,
that European Jews were brutal-
ly exterminated by the Nazis
Was he afraid that intervention
might have made things worse,
or was he washing his hands,
like Pontius Pilate (the com-
parison is not mine; it was made
in print by several Christians).
This controversy was sparkled
off by Rolf Hochhuth's play,
"The Vicar," and is still raging
all over Europe. Its impact, like
that of widespread earthquake,
moved from Germany to Brit-
ain, in connection with the an-
nouncement that the play will
soon be produced in London's
West End.
Hochhuth, a 32 - year - old
writer, wrote his play as a read-
ing drama, very much in the tra-
dition of the German play-
wrights of the Golden Age, who
found this form more suitable
to their requirements and mood
but did not necessarily expect
all their plays to be produced
on a stage. An adaptation was
produced in West Berlin some
time ago and run to 60 full-
house performances. It was
terminated becasue some of the
actors had to honor contracts
elsewhere. At least this was the
explanation of the sponsors.
There were rumors that the play
was taken off because of strong
Catholic pressure, but they do
not seem to have been justified.
For one thing, the Catholic in-
fluence in West Berlin under
Willy Brandt's rule is not that
great; for another thing, thea-
ters all over Germany have an-
nounced that the play will go on
their stages at the opening of
next season in the early fall.
Documents and Notes
Although the adaptation is
about one quarter of the original
size of the piece, its central idea
was left intact. The original ver-
sion contains, in addition to the
actual text of the play, docu-
ments and notes used as evi-
dence that what is said in the
play about Pope Pius XII is
justified. What it says about
Pius XII, to put it briefly, is
this: the Pope failed in his duty
as a Christian leader, and in his
responsibility as the Vicar of
Christ, when he did not cry out
in the face of the appaling mas-
sacres of Jews and others in
Europe; he remained the cool,
inhuman diplomatist and main-
tained meticulous neutrality
while God's children suffered
appaling torture and death at
the hands of the Nazi fiends.
This is a terrible accusation.
Hochhuth pulls no punches. He
says, in the printed version
only, though, that Pius XII was
a small man, a selfish character,
who wasted away his time with
irrelevant preoccupations and
distractions. Hochhuth told the
press that he lived in Rome for
several years in order to absorb
the atmosphere of the city and
gain the necessary knowledge
for his drama. In other words,
he took his task seriously and
expects what he wrote to be
treated the same way.
The Apologists
Naturally enough, the Pope
lacks no apologists, not even in
England with its established An-
glican Church and its numerous
Protestant groupings all over
the British Isles. The Times
opened its columns widely to
opinions on both sides, and so
have other national newspapers.
And there are booklets, pam-
phlets, platform discussions and
lectures to add to the volume of
controversy. Those who defend
the Pope say that the Germans
themselves, with their guilt
complex, and others, the British,
the Americans, the Sweeds, the
Canadians, who stood by and did
nothing, who had adopted the
attitude of "Am I My Brother's
Keeper?", are looking for con-
venient scapegoat.
Sir Alec Randall says this but
also deals with the merits of the
case. He points out that Pius XII
was not, in fact, the cool diplo-
matist which Hochhuth makes
him out to have been. Public
protests might have increased
the persecution, Sir Alec says.
And he brings in to support his
thesis the P o l i s h .Cardinal,
Prince Sapieha, who had asked
the Pope not to protest publicly,
as such protests might make the
situation worse, and the French
Catholic writer, Francois Mau-
riac, who had written that the
silence of the Pope was "a ter-
rible duty," because there was
danger of provoking madmen
like Hitler and Himmler to even
worse excesses. Sir D'Arcy G.
Osborne, who was an enforced
.guest of the Vatican during the
war, and was British Minister to
the Holy See, says very much
the same.
The answer of Kurt Klap-
pholz, Robert Weltsch, E. M.
Mendelson, Morrie Raymond,
Adrian Pigott and others—all
names to be treated with respect
—is this: the situation could not
have been worse, there was
nothing to lose. Mauriac himself,
while defending the Pope, says
that "a crime of such magnitude
falls, nevertheless, in no small
measure to the responsibility of
all those witnesses who never
cried out against it, whatver the
reason for their silence."
No Word from Pope
Again, the controversy reveals
that there was a clash between
diplomatic etiquette and spon-
taneous humnity, and the Pope
was found wanting, coming
down on the side of diplomacy,
which, in the end, proved futile,
anyhow. Many Catholics, mil-
lions perhaps, waited for a word
from Rome — in vain. Albert
Camus summed up their feel-
ings, and the feelings of all of
us: "A sad loneliness gripped all
hearts, of believers and non-
believers." .
It is also being pointed out,
here and in Germany, that Car-
dinal Innitzer of Vienna ordered
bells to be rung from all Roman
Catholic churches when Hitler
marched into the city. He was
never, as far as it is known, re-
buked by the Pope. That was at
a time when the full scope of
the Nazi horrors was still - to
come, and the argument of "it
may make it worse" did not
arise.
On the other hand, some
writers point out that Pius XII
was accused of sheltering Jews
in the Vatican, when the Fa-
scists in Italy tried to discredit
him. This is true but it should
be stated that nobody, not even
Hochhuth himself, accuses the
late Pope of lack of compassion
on the purely personal level.
There is more weight in the
argument that Britain America
and other free countries could
have done much more to save
the doomed Jews of Europe, at
least could have tried. However,
it is no defense of Pius XII to
say that others in high places
were equally guilty of the sin of
omission. And, besides, none of
the statesmen involved was the
vicar of Christ. They were or-
dinary mortals and blood and
flesh politicians.
Perhaps the most telling con-
tribution to the whole contro-
versy is this brief letter by
Nancy Brockman in the Sunday
Observer: "Your comment takes
the view that idle, easy gestures
such as public and vigorous in-
tervention, would not have
saved the Jews but would also
have involved Catholics too in
wholesale persecution. A pity
the Church's martyrs did not
have the benefit of your advice."
I leave it at that.
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