Word: chamberlain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Exchequer Winston Churchill; 2) Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks; 3) Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead. The foreign policy of the Empire is at bottom tough and rational; but a great swath is cut among League idealists by British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, a weak antidote to Churchill and Birkenhead...
...Papal Chamberlain...
Sirs: In your issue of Nov. 31, on p. 30, you refer to and quote from an editorial in the Living Church, referring to the operations of a gentleman [Chevalier Giacinto Leccisi] calling himself a papal chamberlain...
...from Rome" only in the sense that he has at one time lived in that city, not that he was sent to the United States by the Vatican. The authorities of the Vatican do not know of his presence here. 2) Mr. Leccisi is merely an honorary Papal Chamberlain. As such he can no more be said to be a representative of the Roman Curia than one who has received a medal from Congress may be said to represent Congress. 3) The organization of a Diocesan Matrimonial Court is outlined, and in detail, by the Canon Law of the Church...
...card: CHEV. GIACINTO LECCISI Papal Chamberlain Attorney and Counselor at Canon Law From ROME has opened an office at the above address for the purpose of dealing with the annulment of marriages in the Roman Church, and all matters pertaining to canon law. * Names omitted, in all courtesy.-ED. * Self-styled "oldest, largest, most popular Polish daily and Sunday in America...