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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order of Pope Pius XI, all the Archbishops and Bishops of France joined with Cardinal Dubois, last week, in signing an ordinance which will keep all persons affiliated with L'Action Française excommunicated until they renounce their affiliation...
This extremely severe discipline was meted out by the Supreme Pontiff in an effort to stop the famed editors of L'Action Française, Mr. Leon Daudet and Charles Maurras, from trading upon the prestige of Catholicism in order to gain Royalist supporters. This they have done by spreading a perverted doctrine, namely that Catholicism-which has so often upheld a stumbling royal house-should at this date espouse the lost cause of the Most Catholic House of Bourbon...
...particularly obnoxious to the Holy See because it strains the proverbially good relations existing between shrewd, sleepy-eyed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of the French Republic and suave, far-sighted Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, the Papal Secretary of State. These two statesmen were in perfect accord, some months ago, when L'Action Française and all other works of its editors were placed on the Catholic Index Expurgatorius. Still more were they in accord, last week, when the dread weapon of excommunication was drawn against the incorrigible Royalists...
...stand taken by the Papacy has already shorn Editors Daudet and Maurras of perhaps half their Roman Catholic supporters. For example, the smart, swagger group of young Royalist bravos who used to be known as Les Camelots du Roi, "The King's Newsboys," because they sold copies of L'Action Française have deserted in numbers approaching a stampede...
Booth Tarkington published a novel last year called The Plutocrat. The hero was Earl Tinker, U. S. captain of industry. Mr. Tinker's fictitious shipmates on a Mediterranean cruise included James T. Weatheright of Weatheright's Worsteds; T. H. Smith, president of the G. L. and W.; Thomas Swingey of Swingey Brothers, Inc.; Harold M. Wilson, ex-chairman of the Board of the Western Industrial Corp., etc., etc. "You almost wonder," said Earl Tinker, "how the United States can go on running with these men out here on the ocean...