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XIIBritish, US Document Unearthed
ROME, MAY 17, 2011 (Zenit.org).- The United States and Great Britain discouraged Pope Pius XII from speaking out against Nazi brutality, warning the Pope that a public protest could have grave consequences.
The Allies’ recommendation is reported in a document unearthed recently by the New York-based Pave the Way Foundation, founded by an American Jew, Gary Krupp.
Krupp asserted that these revelations help to give context for the way in which Pius XII handled the Nazi horror.
The document is correspondence between the British representative to the Holy See, Sir D’Arcy Osborne, and Myron Taylor, his U.S. counterpart.
A Nov. 7, 1944, note signed by Taylor’s assistant, Franklin C. Gowen, reports to Taylor that Osborne “called and said that he feared the Holy Father may make Radio appeal on behalf of Jews in Hungary and that in his appeal he may also criticise what the Russians are doing in occupied territory.”
“Sir D’Arcy said something should be done to prevail upon the Pope not to do this,” the note added, “as it would have very serious political repercussions.”
Krupp showed ZENIT another note between the envoys’ offices that references a letter about help for Jewish refugees. The note “clearly states that the letter must be destroyed in order to prevent it from falling into enemy hands,” Krupp said.
Osborne wrote the May 20, 1944, note to Harold Tittman, another of Taylor’s assistants.
The British representative tells the U.S. envoy’s assistant that he will destroy the letter, saying that if it were to fall into enemy hands it would incriminate a priest called Father Benedetto.
Krupp observed that the destruction of documents was necessarily common during the war. “There are some critics who do not seem to understand that this is why so many written orders also had to be destroyed,” Krupp noted.
zenit.org/article-32598?l=english
XIIBritish, US Document Unearthed
ROME, MAY 17, 2011 (Zenit.org).- The United States and Great Britain discouraged Pope Pius XII from speaking out against Nazi brutality, warning the Pope that a public protest could have grave consequences.
The Allies’ recommendation is reported in a document unearthed recently by the New York-based Pave the Way Foundation, founded by an American Jew, Gary Krupp.
Krupp asserted that these revelations help to give context for the way in which Pius XII handled the Nazi horror.
The document is correspondence between the British representative to the Holy See, Sir D’Arcy Osborne, and Myron Taylor, his U.S. counterpart.
A Nov. 7, 1944, note signed by Taylor’s assistant, Franklin C. Gowen, reports to Taylor that Osborne “called and said that he feared the Holy Father may make Radio appeal on behalf of Jews in Hungary and that in his appeal he may also criticise what the Russians are doing in occupied territory.”
“Sir D’Arcy said something should be done to prevail upon the Pope not to do this,” the note added, “as it would have very serious political repercussions.”
Krupp showed ZENIT another note between the envoys’ offices that references a letter about help for Jewish refugees. The note “clearly states that the letter must be destroyed in order to prevent it from falling into enemy hands,” Krupp said.
Osborne wrote the May 20, 1944, note to Harold Tittman, another of Taylor’s assistants.
The British representative tells the U.S. envoy’s assistant that he will destroy the letter, saying that if it were to fall into enemy hands it would incriminate a priest called Father Benedetto.
Krupp observed that the destruction of documents was necessarily common during the war. “There are some critics who do not seem to understand that this is why so many written orders also had to be destroyed,” Krupp noted.
zenit.org/article-32598?l=english