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When a Roman Catholic bishop or archbishop in the U. S. dies, the Pope himself appoints his successor, often following the advice of his Apostolic Delegate in the U. S. This official-at present the bland, swart Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani-has no diplomatic standing, but lives in a handsome $1,000,000 Apostolic Delegation on Embassy Row in Washington...
...tank from the Leftist People's Army into the Rightist lines and surrendered. Obligingly the proletarian soldier demonstrated his death-dealing machine to an aristocratic audience which included German Ambassador Dr. Eberhard von Stohrer, Italian Ambassador Count Guido Viola di Campalto, Papal Nuncio Mgr. Gaetano Cicognani. Opening the exhibit was short, blond, blue-eyed General Count Francisco de Jordana, Rightist Spain's Foreign Minister and Vice Premier of the Franco Government, more & more looked upon as Rightist Spain's No. 2 man. The Count orated: "In this extravagant display of selected specimens of captured war materiel...
...Escorted by Knights of Columbus in cocked hats, the ecclesiastics marched through crowded Detroit streets in what was the year's most showy parade, taking half an hour to pass through the portals of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament. There on a throne sat Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., whose name (pronounced chee-kone-yonny) had become to many an impious Detroiter "Chicken Annie." Three papal bulls were read and Archbishop Mooney knelt in prayer until the Apostolic Delegate led him to the throne, placed a crosier (crook) in his hand...
Shortly it seemed the Vatican might be doubling Archbishop Cicognani's fist, raising it for a blow. From Director Giulio Castelli of Rome's La Corrispondenza news agency came still another explanation of the Coughlin conundrum in which everyone seemed to be contradicting everyone else as to just where the Detroit priest stood with Rome: "The bishop came and received from the Vatican the most precise and unmistakable instructions that cannot be misunderstood-namely, to moderate the ardor of an orator who should have refrained from attacks of a political character, especially personal, and also renounce the forming...
...Osservatore Romano editorial which Bishop Gallagher had waved aside as "unimportant" had also been ordered by the Vatican, declared Director Castelli, who added: "I understand that the Apostolic Delegate to Washington [Archbishop Cicognani] has been instructed to watch Father Coughlin's future activities...