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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DULLES SCENTS BRINK VICTORY, proclaimed the Christian Science Monitor last week as the Secretary of State flew'back from a few days at his Duck Island retreat to a capital hoping against hope that Red China would make its seven-day ceasefire on Quemoy permanent. Dulles conferred with Under Secretary of State Christian Herter and Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs Walter Robertson, hit a quick consensus that the Communists had stopped shooting because their artillery blockade of Quemoy had failed, and they were unwilling or unable to step up the pressures in the teeth of U.S. and Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Suspense on Quemoy | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...despite attrition in Iron Curtain countries. The church's strengthened spiritual posture was marked by the fact that under Pius 33 saints were canonized,*more than under any other Pope in this century. Its political success can be judged from the fact that, during Pius' reign, Christian Democratic parties and Catholie statesmen (De Gasperi, Adenauer, Schuman, Fanfani et al.) rose to power in Western European countries where only a few years ago anticlericalism was a major prerequisite for political success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pius XII, 1876-1958 | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...European order, which forced the Vatican to deal not with monarchs or heads of state but with the people, and to find new ways of reaching them. Above all, it was caused by Pius XII's insistence that the papacy had a mission to assert Christian truths about all phases of human life. The Pope delivered thousands of addresses to delegations from every imaginable trade, profession or calling-each address painstakingly composed by himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pius XII, 1876-1958 | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Gothic Figure. Above and beyond his diplomatic and intellectual role there was always the Pope's incandescent personality. In a prayer to Mary he once asked that all men be made to "feel the attraction of Christian goodness." That was what most men felt in the presence. It was in a sense ironic that this sophisticated diplomat, member of old Roman aristocracy, should become so popular a Pope. Before World War II, a papal audience for a layman was a prestigious and protocol-encrusted enterprise. Under Pius XII, however, a visit to the Pope was heartwarming and almost informal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pius XII, 1876-1958 | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Married. Prince Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz, 40, Minister of Education for Saudi Arabia, brother of King Saud and one of some 40 sons of the late Ibn Saud; and Safinaz Nour, 18; in Cairo. Prince Fahd gave his bride jewelry worth an estimated $275,000, a collection of Christian Dior dresses, a cash gift of $40,000, presented her family with six U.S. limousines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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