Word: condemns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Religion tells of a German play that is stirring up controversy in four European cities, arguing that the late Pope Pius XII refused to condemn openly the Nazi murder of Jews. It seemed to us not enough merely to note the accusation and the acrimony, and we set out to look into how and why the Pope behaved...
Everywhere, Der Stellvertreter has caused a storm of comment and quarrel. For in it, Hochhuth argues that Pope Pius XII refused to condemn openly the Nazi murder of European Jews because he saw Hitler as a necessary barrier between Soviet Communism and the Christian West, and hoped to negotiate a cease-fire between Germany and the Western Allies. Hochhuth believes that the Pope, as the Supreme Pontiff of the world's most powerful Christian church, was the only man whose formal protest might have deterred Hitler. But the Pope was silent, and in a 45-page historical appendix...
...Pius ignored Allied pressure to speak out against Nazi genocide. In the autumn of 1942, Myron C. Taylor, Franklin Roosevelt's personal representative to the Vatican, gave the Holy See evidence of the anti-Jewish campaign, and the U.S. Minister to Switzerland warned the Vatican that failure to condemn these atrocities "is undermining faith both in the church and in the Holy Father himself." Baron Ernst von Weizsaecker, who claimed that he tried to protect the Pope from Hitler's wrath while serving as German envoy to the Holy See, cabled his Foreign Ministry superiors: "The Pope...
...Judiciary Committee, the President has made himself the target of a cross-fire. Those who favor strong civil rights legislation castigate him for not supporting the measure recently reported out of a House subcommittee. The larger group who feel that the civil rights movement is somehow "going too fast" condemn him for introducing even the weaker bill he produced last June...
...behavior by many of the newly elected countries. Russia's empire is occupied by military force and ruled by fear. By contrast, the British record is one which has freed 600 million people in 15 years. The U.N. members know that to be true, but they seldom condemn the Russians and constantly harass us. Is there growing up, almost imperceptibly, a code of behavior where there is one rule for the bully who deals in fear and another for the democracies, because their stock in trade is reason and compromise...