Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arevalo's presentation of his case is staggering. He flogs the United States mercilessly, especially the McCarthy era with which he was so familiar. ("From an alliance against Hitler alive, the United States had gone on to an alliance with Hitler dead.") He mocks Eisenhower's statement that "nationalist self-sufficiency has gone out of style," calling the former President a self-styled "Christian Dior of politics...
...provide tension not common on Broadway. Fittingly, the disturbance pre-echoed a scene in the play, also faint with street noises but ringing with inner turmoil, in which the Jews of Rome are rounded up, virtually under the windows of the Vatican, and shipped off in cattle cars to Hitler's extermination camps. And within the papal apartments, according to German Playwright Rolf Hochhuth, sat a man who by a word might have stayed that mass murder. The Deputy is a hammerblow "J'accuse" hurled at Pope Pius...
...lieutenant bursts into an afternoon tea and begins a semihysterical recital of the statistical horrors of the "factories of death for people" at Treblinka and Belzec. "I'm sorry . . . why must you come to me?" says the nuncio in visible dismay, advising the SS man to see Herr Hitler. But Father Riccardo is heartstricken and is positive that Pius will protest as soon as he knows...
...troubled young priest goes to Rome, where his aristocratic father and a cardinal friend are close advisers of the Pope. The cardinal (Fred Stewart) is a jovial, fleshy connoisseur of wine, rare flowers, and the chess game of international politics. "Trouble tempers dictators," he remarks after Hitler loses Stalingrad, and presses Father Riccardo to be a realist, since "the realist compromises." In his uncompromising way, the young priest finally sees Pius and begs him to damn Hitler openly. The Pope knows Hitler's wrongs, but he reminds Father Riccardo that "a diplomat must see with discretion...
...sound sense. The Pope reminds Father Riccardo of the mounting Communist danger from the East, thus proving at least as prophetic as Winston Churchill at Fulton, Mo. Pius keeps silent, he tells Father Riccardo, to prevent worse misfortunes -and Hochhuth is scarcely in a position to argue that Hitler was not capable of further madness. But like Hochhuth, Father Riccardo sees himself as holier than the Pope, and he leaves Pius' presence with the words, "God must not destroy the church because a Pope hid when he was summoned...