Vatican's Role Relating to Jewry
Under Review by New Secretariat
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Father Scavizzi wrote that he
learned about the mass murders
of Jews while he accompanied
Italian troops through Germany
and Austria en route to the Rus-
sian front. Later, he had a pri-
vate audience with Pope Pius, he
stated ,and "I told him all I knew."
The priest added, "I saw him cry
like a boy and pray like a saint."
The Pope told him: "Please
tell everyone, everyone you can,
that the Pope agonizes for them
(the Jews). Many times I thought
of scorching Nazism with the
lightning of excommunication
and of denouncing to the civil-
ized world the criminality of the
extermination of Jews. We have
heard the grave menace of re-
taliation not on our person but
on the poor nation. We have
received from various channels
urgent recommendations that the
Holy See not take a drastic
stand."
"After many years and many
prayers, I judged that any protest
of mine not only would fail to
help anyone but would create even
more fury against the Jews, multi-
plying the acts of cruelty. Perhaps
my solemn protest would have
earned me praise from the civil
world, but it also would have pro-
vided for the Jews a more implac-
able persecution . . . I love the
Jews," the late Pontiff was quoted
by the priest as having said.
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(In the second annual King
lecture of the U. S. Catholic His-
torical Society at Marymount Col-
lege in New York last week, Father
Robert A. Graham, S.J., associate
editor of America magazine and
author of "Vatican Diplomacy,"
defended Pope Pius XII, called
him "Angel of Mercy" and de-
clared that the late Pope had in-
tervened with Admiral Horthy,
then the Hungarian Regent in
Budapest, in behalf of Hungarian
Jewry which was about to be sent
to the extermination camp in
Auschwitz, in 1944.
(Fr. Graham referred to Rudolf
Vrba's book, "I Cannot Forgive,"
published by Grove Press and re-
viewed in The Jewish News on
March 27, in reviewing some of
the details of the tragic position
of Hungary's Jews. He went into
great detail to prove that the late
Pope had acted humanely and
promptly.
(Fr. Graham's lecture commemo-
rated the 75th birthday of Francis
Cardinal Spellman and his 25th
anniversary as Archbishop of New
York. After the lecture, Cardinal
Spellman commended the lecturer
and declared that time will prove
the great goodness of Pope Pius
XII, his great work and his justi-
fication.)
German Ministry Against Expanded indemnifications
BONN (JTA) — A West Ger-
many Finance Ministry spokes-
man indicated that the Ministry
would fight any attempt to liber-
alize or expand two amendments
to exend existing indemnification
benefits to victims of Nazism.
The announcement made remote
the likelihood of any Parliament-
ary action before summer even
on the minor improvements em-
bodied in the amendments, which
were introduced to Parliament
last November.
"With the passage of these
bills and by the time all claims
have been settled, West Ger-
many will have paid out $10,-
000,000,000 in restitution and
compensation to victims of Nazi
persecution," the spokesman
said. "There is no way the gov-
ernment can be induced or
pressured into going beyond the
amount established in the bills
now pending before the Bunde-
stag."
The spokesman said that there
would be a flood of new claims if
the Oct. 1, 1953, deadline in the
current law was to be lifted. "No
one knows how many perset atees
have left Eastern Europe since
Oct. 1, 1953, or how many will
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still leave those areas and file
claims for compensation," he
stated, "but it is not inconceivable
that lifting the deadline could cost
the Government as much as an
additional $1,500,000,000 before
anything is said and done." He
added "That kind of money we
just don't have."
The Conference on Jewish Ma-
terial Claims Against Germany and
various Jewish refugee organiza-
tions have asked that victims of
Nazism caught behind the Iron
Curtain who could not file by the
1953 deadline be given the same
treatment as those who were able
to file. One of the government
amendments would set up a fund
Russian Volume Calls
the Talmud Immoral
LONDON — The Talmud is a
source of "reactionary ideas, pro-
pagating morals of exploitation,"
declares a new book published by
the Soviet Academy of Sciences in
an edition of 70,000 copies.
"What Is the Talmud?", as the
book is called, is one of a series
of antireligious books.
The book says that it is part of
the teachings of the Talmud that
exploitation of the poor by the I
rich and the weak by the strong I
is the proper mode of behavior.
of $150,000,000 for one-time pay-
ments for the Nazi victims who
could not file. The spokesman said
that the fund would make it pos-
sible to pay between $1,000 and
$1,250 to each such victim.
On another issue in dispute be-
tween the West German Govern-
ment and refugees — that of com-
pensating victims for property con-
fiscated by the Nazies in occupied
countries — it was reported that
the Finance Ministry was read ♦
to yield somewhat. One of the
amendments would provide a $100,-
000,000 fund for one-time pay-
ments to cover principal claims
for jewelry and household goods
confiscated and known to have
been shipped by the Nazis to the
Third Reich.
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The second annual Shaarit Ha-
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Members of the Israel Bond Na- Zedek social hall.
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