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...Nazi archives, when taken at face value, tend to undercut this rationale. Nazi diplomats kept reporting back home that Pius had "affection" and "respect" for the German people. Shortly before the fall of France, Diego von Bergen, the German Ambassador to the Vatican, wrote to Berlin that high-placed officials of the Holy See had assured him that they wanted the Allies to accept a negotiated peace on the Western front. In August 1943, the new German Ambassador to the Vatican, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, told Berlin that in Rome, "Bolshevism is the greatest cause of concern." Friedlander is aware...
...counterattack. In a recent issue of America, Jesuit Historian Robert Graham says that he ignored documents that do not support his case. Other Catholic experts charge that Friedlander has failed to consider the self-serving motives of the German diplomats whose reports are so crucial to his thesis. Von Bergen, for example, was an ambitious professional diplomat who hoped for promotion in Germany's foreign service. Von Weizsacker was an anti-Nazi Protestant who apparently wished to prevent Hitler from taking any action that would harm Pius personally...
...whose death ends it, marries a failure who eventually beats her and nearly drives her insane--but she can't let The Group know she's made an unsuccessful marriage. Pokey (Mary-Robin Redd) is fat, funny, and fertile (two sets of twins, my dear), and finally, Lakey (Candace Bergen) is the aloof aesthete who is a lesbian...
...through hearsay, as only a cat can. As Dottie, a staid Bostonian who decides to let a casual acquaintance seduce her, Joan Hackett intuitively lights up every scene she is in. And Shirley Knight, as Polly, reads gentle truth into every word and gesture. Leading the second rank, Candice Bergen, as the Lesbian "Lakey," is a stunning presence. Most important of the men in their lives are Larry Hagman and James Broderick, with Hal Holbrook contributing some solemn hilarity as a failed leftist philanderer who seems unable to assimilate the benefits of psychoanalysis...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Polly Bergen, Diahann Carroll, John Raitt and others devote themselves to the music of George Gershwin...