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...steaming August day in 1946, thin, dark deputy Castel Demesmin rose in Port-au-Prince's Doric-columned, blue-and-gold-trimmed Chambre des Deputes, drew a deep breath and let fly with a hot blast of pure male chauvinism. The topic under discussion was a modest petition to let Haitian women vote and hold office. "All the miseries of this country," roared Demesmin, "come from the women. They have corrupted the public officers, the Deputies, the Senators. The Haitian woman has brought this country to ruin . . . the women who want the right to vote are so much manure...
...Cline Paden, 30, from Lubbock, Texas, had gone to Italy in 1947 and found the country "sorely in need of material and spiritual help." With his brother Harold and eleven helpers, Evangelist Paden concentrated on the town of Frascati, four miles from the Pope's summer residence at Castel Gandolfo...
...Americans opened an orphanage for boys, preached and passed out U.S. food packages. The Frascatians were unenthusiastic. The orphanage had room for 50 boys, but only 22 came. Last summer, Frascati Capuchin monks organized lectures against Protestantism. Then one day last September two jeeploads of Church of Christers, at Castel Gandolfo for a biweekly Bible class, were threatened by a crowd of Italians who, they said, advanced shouting: "We want the Protestants' bones...
...delegates' differences were resolved when they went to Castel Gandolfo. There, Pope Pius XII gave the church's approval to Bacala's views. Obtaining semen by unnatural means was wrong, said the Pontiff, even for married couples. But medical aid to get the semen from the vagina into the uterus, after normal intercourse, was permissible...
Retired Politico James A. Farley, on a trip to Europe, dropped in at Castel Gandolfo for a call on Pope Pius...