Word: chancellor
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During the war he served as a lieutenant in the Mecklenburg Dragoons, but in the spring of 1917 was transferred to diplomatic duty as representative of the Wilhelmstrasse (German Foreign Office) at general headquarters and later represented the Chancellor on the Eastern front, where he made himself so thoroughly unpopular by opposing the militarists that he was transferred to The Hague, Netherlands. After the war he was called to the Foreign Office first as head of the Eastern Department and after as State Secretary of Foreign Affairs - the permanent head of the German Foreign Office. His greatest diplomatic ordeal...
Pope Pius XI last week appointed Andrew Francis Cardinal Fruhwirth, papal nuncio at Munich, to be Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church. Thereby His Holiness revived an office, founded originally to collect money to maintain the papal armies, which became a great scandal in the 17th Century. So great was the probable graft that Lorenzo Corsini, later Pope Clement...
...paid 30,000 gold scudi (about $30,000) for his appointment as chancellor. Pope Pius VII (1800-23) reformed the office when Napoleon obviated the need for papal armies...
...Chancellor Fruhwirth's duties will be to collect money for Roman Catholic missionary work...
...Chancellor Seipel, barricaded with his Cabinet in the Parliament building, could at first do no more than secretly despatch couriers to loyal outlying garrisons where troops might be found to take the place of the obstinately passive garrison at Vienna...