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...during the Battle of Gorizia. In November 1917 he was made the public goat of Italy's most inglorious rout at Caporetto, but within the Army his Kudos as a commander did not evaporate and he became sole Sub-Chief-of-Staff under Italian Commander in Chief General Diaz...
...France. His first job was painting copies of 18th Century French pictures on fans and window shades for a Paris factory. Before he was 25 he knew most of the men who were to be his lifelong friends and associates in Impressionism: Monet, Cézanne, Sisley, Pissarro, Diaz. He enlisted in the cavalry for the Franco-Prussian war, but nothing happened to him. Very little happened to him all his life. He was a painter's painter, passionately interested in the technique of his craft, with a lusty sensuousness that has caused Collector Barnes to compare...
Beyond the reach of rich Boss Calles' revenge is the Apostolic Delegate but not the Primate of Mexico, Archbishop Pascual Diaz. No sooner had Archbishop Ruiz sounded off from the safety of Texas last week than Archbishop Diaz's secretary in Mexico City announced with anguish: "The Primate has been arrested and I cannot find out where he is! A milkman who saw six men force the Archbishop's car to halt in a town known as El Arbolito has just told me the dreadful news...
...President Lazaro Cardenas of Mexico returned to the capital from a brief tour of northern and central States, the Government announced that Primate Diaz, when arrested, had a bagful of small coins he had collected for administering confirmation to children at 75 centavos (21?) each outside his district. The Primate, according to the Government, signed an admission that by officiating out of bounds he had violated Mexican law, promised not to repeat the offense and was subjected to a fine of 100 pesos ($27.75), "payable at his convenience." Last week His Grace...
This sounded as if most of Mexico's Catholic population were in danger of being excommunicated but in fact no Mexican was last week excommunicated and avoided. To any such high threat of absolute wrath, the Church adds a sober, realistic rider. Last week Archbishop Diaz pardoned in advance Government employes who keep their jobs because they cannot find other work, parents who send their children to proscribed schools because the truant officer forces them to. The Church wants loyal Catholics but even more it wants live Catholics...