THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Priest Documents Vatican Role in Aiding Jews During Holocaust NEW YORK — The Catholic League for Reli- gious and Civil Rights has published a booklet which claims to refute the belief that Pope Pius XII was in- different to the suffering of the Jews during the Nazi Holocaust. Entitled "Pius XII's De- fense of Jews an Others: 1944-45," the 36-page book- let is written by Jesuit Father Robert A. Graham, Ank_ historican and former ditor of America magazine who has spent the past 15 years editing the Vatican's World War II archives. The work concludes that "the Holy See did in fact carry out its humanitarian mission without distinction of nationality, religion or c 50 Men's Dress Shirts each Laundered & Pressed FREEDOM CLEANERS 24681 Coolidge at 10 Mile 545 1300 - race." To say otherwise, wrote Fr. Graham, "is to do violence to the historical re- cord and to perpetuate a gratuitous denigration of a great humanitarian and Pope." The claim of the Pope's indifference is attributa- ble to German playw- right Rolf Hochhuth, whose "The Deputy" falsely accused Pope Pius of having failed to act or even to speak out against the Nazi at- rocities, Fr. Graham says. When Hochhuth's work first appeared in 1963, the historical data needed to re- fute them were not yet available, Fr. Graham says. However, in an unprece- dented move initiated by Pope Paul VI, the Vatican opened its archives to the scrutiny of historians, the result being a series of 10 volumes entitled "The Acts and Documents of the Holy See Relative to World War II." Fr. Graham's mono- graph summarizes volume 10, which focuses on the Vatican's interventions on behalf of the Jews during Instant Photo Party Favors Photos by Gilbo was the first, and is still the best. All varieties & budgets. Custom made personaVbusiness touches CALL NOW 851-2765 357-5166 PLO Rep. 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Throughout Eastern Europe in the closing years of the war, he says, Vatican diplomats dealt unceas- ingly with the leaders of the occupied countries, striving to keep the Jews off the trains to the death camps. Perhaps the most dramatic and successful of such diplomatic over- tures was the open tele- gram sent by Pope Pius himself to the leader of Hungary, Admiral Horthy. The Pope's mes- sage is said to have been instrumental in causing Horthy to suspend the deportations, thus saving thousands of Jewish lives. Father Graham notes in his monograph that in many such cases there was "synchronization of papal and Jewish rescue action," and he includes in his vol- ume letters of appreciation from several Jewish organ- izations and Jewish com- munity leaders. Now Available MASONIC and SHRINE BUCKLES and other fraternal organizations NIN111111111M11 ■ 16. NEW YORK — Attor- neys for the American Jewish Congress, the World Jewish Congress and the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith questioned Zehdi Labib Terzi, head of the Palestiv Liberation Organization's observer mission to the UN this week, before he testified in the trial concerning a $30,000 bequest to the PLO by the late Fred Sparks, an American journalist. The three Jewish groups are seeking to prove that the PLO, as a terrorist organization, should not be allowed to receive the be- quest. Under established legal principles in New York and other states, be- quests that run contrary to "public policy" are not enforceable by the courts. Yale Archives NEW HAVEN, Conn. (JTA) An effort to raise more than $1 million for an endowment to finance a permanent national video archive for testimonies of Holocaust survivors is under way at Yale Univer- sity, initiated by a grant of $300,000 from the Charles Revson Foundation. Friday, May 28, 1982 23 Moroccan Official Stresses Opposition to Camp David WASHINGTON (JTA) — Foreign Minister M'Hamed Boucetta of Morocco said last week that while his country welcomes the re- turn of the Sinai to Egypt it continues to oppose the Camp David process. Instead, he stressed, Morocco joins other Arab states in demanding a com- prehensive peace agree- ment which includes Israeli withdrawal from all ter- ritories occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem. Boucetta, answering questions from reporters in French through an in- terpreter at a breakfast sponsored by Foreign Policy magazine, said there were "very intense discussions" on the Middle East during King Hassan II's meeting with President Reagan at the White House. He said Morocco was also seeking U.S. arms which it needs to fight the war it is conduct- ing in the Spanish Sahara against the Algerian-based Polisaro movement. Talks have also included the U.S. request for landing rights in Morocco for the U.S. Rapid Deployment Force. The Reagan Adminis- tration has asked for $100 million in military sales credit, but the House Foreign Affairs Commit- tee last week limited the amount to $50 million. It also recommended against allowing U.S. military advisers or other personnel from going into the contested area of the Spanish Sahara. Boucetta said he hoped to get Zaire and other African' nations who are considering following Zaire's example in re-establishing relations with Israel to reconsider their position. He said that many African nations broke ► Israei, Austrian Union Accord VIENNA (JTA) — The Jerusalem employees branch of Histadrut has signed a treaty of friendship and cooperation with its Viennese counterpart, the Gewerkschaft Der Privatangestellten (GPA), the first of its kind between Israeli and Austrian trade unions. relations with Israel be- cause Israel held the Sinai, the territory of a fellow Af- rican country, Egypt, and now believe that this bar- rier to relations with Israel no longer exists. But Boucetta said that this "jus- tification is not sufficient because Israel continues to occupy by force" Arab terri- tory. The In addition, Boucetta stressed Morocco's concern with Zaire's intention to open its embassy. in Jerusalem. He noted that the United Nations Secu- rity Council had condemned the Knesset decision declar- ing Jerusalem Israel's eter- nal capital. 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