Word: eugenio
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...Holiness still demanded "reassuring words." He has had our expression of "regret"' countered the State. But that was not "reassuring," objected the Church. Comic was a discovery at the Italian Foreign Office that mixed with the morning's mail was an unstamped diplomatic note of the first importance from Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State. How did it get there? Not through the mail. It was not brought by the Papal Ambassador, for he had not called. Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, no Sherlock Holmes, shrugged: "An unseen messenger seems to have brought it?most unusual...
...press than the French Embassy at Vatican City rang up Paris, was put through to the Elysee. Soon in Rome a big, French-nosed Renault sped from Embassy to Vatican. In the name of France an angry Frenchman made formal demand upon the Pontifical Secretary of State, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, for complete retraction of Osservatore's story. "Mondieul", shrugged the Embassy press spokesman. "Is it likely that our Protestant President would say such things? Est-ce possible? Maisnon! Meme a un cardinal, notre bon Gastounet ne dirait pas de pareilles extravagances...
Catholic Italy is not like Catholic Malta, whence last week Pope Pius XI received a sharp rebuff. In Milan one Eugenio Bassani, shopkeeper, recently spoke his mind. Last week he was convicted of "speaking ill of the Pope," was fined 1,000 lira ($52.39), sentenced to six months in jail...
...defense Eugenio Bassani pleaded: "I confess that I used the vulgar words these women have repeated in court, but I spoke in jest. By the Blessed Name of our Holy Mother, I swear that I spoke in jest...
...Vulgar Eugenio Bassani was the first Italian sentenced under the Lateran Treaty, which makes it as much a crime to speak ill of Il Papa as of Il Duce or Il Re. In practice one may speak ill of the Pope or the King with virtual impunity throughout Italy so long as one employs suave and gentlemanly terms. But even to utter the word "Mussolini" aloud in a public place causes consternation. Members of the English-speaking colony at Rome take no chances that an Italian might misunderstand them to be speaking ill of Il Duce. Shrewd, they generally refer...