Did Pius XI Plan to Condemn
Anti-Semitism? '38 Encyclical
Might Have Curbed Nazis
WASHINGTON (JTA)—A
papal encyclical attacking
racism and anti-Semitism
ordered by Pope Pius XI in
June, 1938, might have pre-
vented the Nazis from carry-
ing out their planned exter-
mination of Jews, it was dis-
closed in the National Cattle--
tic Reporter due for publi-
cation Saturday.
According to the copyright-
ed lay-edited Reporter, the
P ope commissioned the
American Jesuit editor and
scholar, the Rev. John La-
Farge, to write this encycli-
cal 15 months before the out-
break of World War II. But.
the Reporter notes, it Is not
clear whether the Pope ever
saw the completed draft be•
fore his death in . February
1939.
Gordon Zahn, a Catholic
scholar who has written ex•
tensively on the German
church under littler and who
was asked by the Catholic
Reporter to analyse the en-
cyclical and speculate on the
effect It might have had, said
the publication "could have
had Important long-term re.
sults."
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of the Human Race," was
completed by Father La-
Farge, but the Catholic Re-
porter stated that there is
"the possibility that the fin-
ished manuscript was with-
held from Pope Pius XI for
political reasons by La
F'arge's Jesuit superior gen-
eral, Father Wlodiaiir Ledo-
chowskl, who was also a
Polish count."
According to papers left
behind by LaFarge, now
stored in the Jesuit Seminary
in Woodstock, N.Y., Fr. Ledo-
chowski received the manu-
script from Fr. LaFarge for
transmissilon to the Pope but
held it for more than a month
and then gave it to an uniden-
tified "Jesuit censor."
A German Jesuit scholar,
the Rev. Gustav Gundlach,
who worked with Fr. La-
Farge in Rome on the encycli-
cal draft, expressed distrust
waukee
of Fr. Ledochowski "because
MILWAUKEE (JTA) — A he felt his extreme anti-Com-
nco-Nazi group, the National munism blinded him to the
Socialist White People's Par- dangers of Nazism."
ty, has surfaced in this city
Breslin, . a one-
Thomas
in recent months, according tinw Jesuit candidate for or-
to a report by David M, dination who discovered the
lushewitz, staff writer of the material about the encyclical
Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle. while studying Fr. LaFarge's
Racist fliers adorned with papers, told the Catholic Re-
swastikas and filled with in- porter that Fr. Ledochowaki
cendiary terms spch as kike, feared that publication of the
nigger and Black pigs, have encyclical would prompt
been placed in mailaoxes in Soviet Invasion of
Poland
apartments, houses, stuck leading to the downfall of
under windshield wipers and Western religion.
slipped under doors in pre-
Father Ledochowski report-
dominantly Jewish areas.
reproduc- edlv received the encyclical
A typical leaflet ,
manuscript in late septem-
ed in the Chronicle, has a ber 1938. Some six weeks
headline reading, "Race-Mix- later—the night known as
ing Stinks . . . "
"Crystal Night" of Nov. 9-10
The body of the leaflet
—Nazis pillaged and looted
states, in part: "The sick,
synagogues and Jewish busi-
depraved Jews who monopo-
nesses and arrested thous-
lize the motion-picture indus-
ands of Jews throughout Ger-
try can hardly wait to turn
many. It was the beginning
America into a mongrel cess-
of the planned extermination
pool. They are busy -grinding
of Jews by the Nazi regime.
out one obscene movie after
According to the Catholic
another with race-mixing as
the principal theme . . . All Reporter, t' e virtual silence
of
the churches following that
over America countless Jew-
ish-owned theaters are show- event "showed Hitler that he
ing, movies depicting lewd re- could not get away with using
lationships between blacks Jews as scapegoats."
Nazi anti-Semitic practices
might not have been stopped,
Zahn noted, "but they may
not have escalated to the
stage of planned extermina-
tion; more important, Catho-
lics in countries soon to be
occupied might have been
less ready to cooperate when
the time came."
The draft of the papal en-
cyclical, according to Mar-
jorie Hyer, a staff writer of
the Washington Post who re-
ported on the contents of the
Catholic Reporter's disclo-
sure, has been discovered in
a Jesuit seminary in New
York City.
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