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HAMILTON PHARMACY 1425 N. BROAD ST. — Phone 5821 706 AVE. C — Phone 2-2461 'Yours For Service' ROME, GA. William E. Ditto it Services At Augustes AUGUSTA. — Funeral serv ices for William E. Dixon were held November 19th at St. Pat rick's Church. Rev. Arthur Welt- zer officiating. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Glady’s Bassett Dixon; a step son, Frederick Edward Sommer, Augusta; three step-grandchild ren, Jean Sommer, Dick Som mer, and Tenia Sommer; a bro ther, Harvey B. Dixon, Charles ton, S. C. and a number of niec es and nephews. ELKIN'S DEPARTMENT STORE SKI.I.S REI) GOOSE SHOES FOR BOVS AND GIBES CINDEREGEA DRESSES 6 Mos. 12 year sizes 625 N. Central PO. 1-6243 Hapeville, Ga. Rome News-Tribune “Over 50*000 Readers Daily” ROME, GEORGIA BRIGHTON DIV8S0N OF BURLINGTON INDUSTRIES, Inc. SHANNON, GEORGIA THE NATIONAL CITY BANK OF ROME GEORGIA Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Pope Pius 111 And The Jews Politicians find that the easi est way to make a mountain out of a molehill is to add a little dirt. PAGE 2—THE BULLETIN. November 29, 1953 Reprint From JEWISH NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 20, 1958 It is understandable why the death of Pius XII should have called forth expressions of sin cere grief from practically all sections of American Jewry. For there probably was not a single ruler of our generation who did more to help the Jews in their hour of greatest tragedy, during the Nazi occupation of Europe, than the late Pope. It is approp riate on this occasion to men tion a few specific facts, con firmed by history, about the rescue of thousands of Jewish Nazi victims by the Vatican which was one of the greatest manifestations of humanitarian- ism in the twentieth century, as well as a new and effective method of fighting antisemitism. I. During the last critical years of the war, when the Ger mans occupied Italy, the grounds of the Vatican as well as the churches in Rome under its jurisdiction, considered neu tral territory by international law, were thrown open to the Jews by order of the Pope as a sanctuary. Any Jew from any country who could manage to reach the Vatican was admitted without questions and thereby removed from Nazi jurisdiction. II. The same method of pro tecting Jews through the inter nationally recognized neutrality of the Vatican was used by the Papal Nuncios in other coun tries who freely issued “protec tive passports” to Jews threat ened by the Nazi, thus placing them under the jurisdiction of the Vatican. III. Catholic monasteries and converts in France, Belgium, Italy and other countries of Eu rope, opened their doors to Jew ish victims of Nazism and they became well known as hiding places for entire Jewish fam ilies, particularly for children. This was a fundamental policy of Pope Pius in the beginning of the war which he maintained throughout the Nazi occupation of Europe in the face of great difficulties and danger. IV. Thousands of Jewish ref ugees in danger of Nazi deporta tion were smuggled out from Nazi occupied countries by an underground movement organ ized for that purpose by mem bers of the Catholic clergy with the knowledge and authority of the Vatican. (See “Magnificent Episode,” p. 3). V. The courageous Encycli cals, Pastoral Letters and ser mons issued by the Pope himself and by many archbishops and bishops throughout Europe de nouncing the inhumanity of spe cific acts of Nazi persecution of the Jews were the only rays of light in the long dark night of Nazism and they provided the hope and comfort which the Jews needed as much as the physical aid in the time of their greatest anguish. FROM PREACHING TO PRACTICING All these acts, which were gratefully acknowledged by the Jewish communities of Rome and other cities, point to one highly significant conclusion which has not yet been suffi ciently implanted in the minds of many people, Jews and non- J e w s alike. This is that the movement by Christians of all demoninations to save the Jews from Nazi extermination, which sprang up spontaneously in all countries of Europe during the height of the Nazi persecution and in which the Vatican play ed so important a role, was not only a manifestation of humani- tarism in any age when evil reached the height of its power. It was also a positive attack on antisemitism which was bound to have tremendous effects on Christianity itself and on the relations between Christians and Jews. It has already mark edly reduced religious anti semitism in the West and is bound to do so still more in the future. For the first time in the long feud between Christianity and Judaism, a crisis occurred which revealed that the war which they had carried on for nearly nineteen centuries had outlived its time and that the battle has shifted to other fields and other forces. Organized and in stitutionalized Christianity rea lized that the old religious bit terness and hatred between Christians and Jews no longer had meaning or reason and that 1 the failure to remove it in time f had almost brought Judeo- Christian civilization to its end. It is to the credit of Pope Pius XII that he, a great leader of or ganized Christianity, not only recognized this truth in time, but also that he visualized a positive method of acting upon it in a grand manner: Instead of preaching Christianity, as the Christian Churches had done for centuries, he and the churches practiced its principles and set an example by their acts and lives, as did the Founder of Christianity. 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