U.S. Catholic Educator Regrets Pope Pius’ Silence on Jews

A leading Catholic educator asserted here today that, while Roll Hochhuty’s controversial drama, “The Deputy, “cannot be accepted as history, “many of uswcuki rest easier if the Pope (Pius XII) had spoken ” out publicly on Hitler’s annihilation of European Jewry. The statement was made by Dr. George N. Shuster assistant to the president of Fordham University here, one of the leading Catholic institutions of higher learning in this country.

Dr. Shuster discussed the book version of “The Deputy” which is to go on sale tomorrow in the U.S. — in the New York Times Book Review, His review was coupled with another by Dr. Robert Gorham Davis, professor of English at Columbia University, a non-Catholic. Both reviewers saw deficiencies in the Hochhuth play as a drama. Dr. Davis referred to its plot as “rather old-fashioned, operatic, Schillerian, He stated that “however brash and cumbersome it may be, ‘The Deputy” has evoked throughout the West a passionate, moral and religious response that is intensely needed at this time.