Jesuit Calls 'Deputy' Play Anti-Clerical for Focus on Pope's Role During Genocide NEW YORK, (JTA)—A Jesuit editor denounced plans of Im- presario Billy Rose to produce on Broadway a European play accusing the late Pope Pius XII of not doing all he might have done to save some of Europe's 6,000,000 martyred Jews from being slaughtered by the Nazis. Heated comment marked the premiere of the play, "T h e Deputy," by Rolf Hochmuth, a German Protestant, in West Berlin in February. The Rev. Robert A. Graham, associate editor of America, who read the play in German, called the play "anti-clerical literature." He said the play's "attack on Pope Pius XII belongs to a literary genre which is deep- rooted in Europe and particu- larly in Germany. It was characteristic of the Nazi lit- erature and also of the pre- Nazi literature." The editor recently returned from a year- long study abroad on a Rock- efeller Foundation grant to make an evaluation of Vatican policy during World War II. He said he felt that the play would not interest the "average Broadway theatergoer" and that "a fair person would be quite indignant at this injustice to the memory of a Pope who, by the playwright's own acknowledge- ment, did a great deal to save the Jews of Europe." He added Hochmuth's claim was "not that the Pope did not do any- thing for the Jews of Europe but either he did not do enough or that he did not do it publicly by means of flaming public con- demnation." Informed of the criticism, Rose said it would not deter him from going ahead with the production. He said he had re- ceived letters of protest and of Knesset Won't Debate Role of German 'Experts in Egypt JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The Knesset rejected four opposi- tion party motions calling for general debate on the issue of the West German scientists working in Egypt on the devel- opment of advanced weapons systems. The vote was 48 to 33 against the motions, which were submitted by the right-wing Herut, leftist Map a m, the Liberal party and the Com- munists. The House also rejected a proposal by .Herut leader Mena- hem Beigin to have the motion referred to committee for con- sideration. Foreign. Minister Golda Meir rejected opposition charges that government agencies had "muted" the unanimous resolu- tion passed by the Knesset on March 20 which urged all-out efforts at alerting world opinion against the German experts working in Egypt. Declaring that additional debate would be "redundant," the Foreign Min- ister assured the Knesset that the government would persist in carrying out effective measures to halt the activities of the Ger- man scientists in Egypt. Spokesmen for the four op- position parties had argued that disclosures at the trial in Basle last month of two persons charged with being Israeli agents, and reports on the use of poison gas in the fighting in Yemen, warranted debate on the issue. They also charged that government agencies, nota- bly the Defense Ministry, had inspired local press reports that Egypt had not obtained cobalt weapon raw materials or any components of weapons for mass destruction in spite of the revelations of the Basle trial. The opposition speakers argued that these press reports had sabotaged the campaign to rally world opinion against the German scientists. Reiterating that the government had dis- regarded the Knesset resolu- tion of last March, the opposi- tion speakers cited the forced resignation of the chief of Is- rael's security services as a gesture of "appeasement" to West Germany. Mrs. Meir denied that a gov- ernment agency had inspired the press reports and expressed regret that they had been pub- lished. Asserting that efforts in the spirit of the Knesset resolution had been and would continue to be carried out by the government, Mrs. Meir ex- pressed appreciation of a draft bill pending before the Bunde- stag, the lower House of the West German parliament, de- signed • to outlaw activities by German nationals abroad in the development of weapons of mass destruction. Beigin attacked the Foreign Minister for lauding the Bun- destpg, charging that the Bonn parliament had procrastinated and would not reconvene after its szammer recess until next October, after which, he said, the bill would be shuttled back and forth for. longer delays. Israel, meanwhile, had white- washed West German respon- sibility in the matter, he de- clared. Blaustein Reappointed to U.S. Petroleum Body WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Jacob troleurn matters of national sig- Blaustein has been reappointed nificance. Blaustein was a co- by Secretary of the Interior founder, with his father, the praise for his intention to pro- Stewart L. Udall as a. member late Louis Blaustein, of the duce the play. of the National Petroleum Coun- American Oil Company, and is One letter he received was cil which serves as advisor to a director of the Standard Oil from Maria R. Piccione, pres- the federal government on pe- Company. ident of Columbiettes, an or- ganization of Catholic women, who wrote that it was "in- TEMPLE ISRAEL OF DETROIT comprehensible" that Rose in- tended to produce for Broad- way audiences "this travesty of truth"- which she said ma: ligned the "memory of a man who was acutely and inces- _ santly alive to the tragic vol- ume of- human suf f er ing caused by the war." She added: "Is money or publicity that important to you?" Herman Shumlin, who is di- recting the play, said "it has al- ways been a matter of amaze- ment and shame to me that the Announces war and the murder of 6,000,000 Jews can be so easily forgotten. That Summer Sabbath Eve Services Are There were many men in im- portant positions in the world- who did nothing. It is time we Conducted in Our Air-Conditioned begin to search out the truth." He added that he hoped the Sanctuary Every Friday Night at 8:30 New York version of the play "will bring that search. • Dr. Leon Fram will deliver a summer series of sermons on He plans to leave soon for "The Greatest Poems from the Book of Psalms." First in this series will be "A Modern Interpretation of Psalm 23— Hamburg to confer with the The Lord Is My Shepherd," to be delivered this Friday night, playwright on the script. The July 12. play is due to be performed here by the end of the year. • Rabbi M. Robert Syme will return to the pulpit in August. He Noted Folklorist Abraham. 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