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...importance of these churchmen and the 16 other native bishops is highly rated at the Vatican. Said an official in the Congregation Propaganda Fide last week: "Very few Africans know the name of Portuguese Cardinal de Gouveia of Lourengo Marques, Mozambique, the only cardinal in Africa. But they all know that there are 19 African bishops in Africa. Many of them know them all or most of them by name. Though this may not mean any appreciable increase in converts, it does show that Negroes have great pleasure in knowing that any of their number may reach to bishop...
...Continents. Africa and Asia are Catholicism's open spaces. There the Pope's appointments exemplified his policy. The choice of Archbishop Teodosio de Gouveia of Portugal's colonial Lourengo Marques not only gave Africa its first modern cardinal but emphasized colonial peoples' right to effective representation in world affairs. The Vatican piously added: "The Sacred College must set the example...
Patently, since his only hope of winning the war is to choke the Allies' flow of supplies, Hitler was throwing his strength and all his ingenuity into his U-boat campaign. South Africa reported huge German craft clustered thickly around Portuguese Lourengo Marques, sinking Allied ships with a frequency that shook South African morale. From Stockholm came a German writer's story of a new wrinkle: submersible barges towed by cargo-carrying subs to refuel and supply U-boats far from home...
Last week Joe Grew reached Lourengo Marques, Mozambique, aboard the diplomatic exchange ship Asama Maru, on the first leg of his homeward trip to Washington. The 62-year-old Ambassador's unhappiness was made plain in quotations from a speech which he had delivered to his Embassy staff in Tokyo on May 30. Said he: "I have not an iota of doubt of our ultimate victory in this war of nations. I myself, during these past months, have had plenty of time to survey the ruins of a life's work as an architect might regard, after...
...than a century and a half (from 1415 to 1581) little Portugal was one of the most aggressive and wealthiest countries in Europe. Egged on by the tough little kings of the House of Aviz, her explorers (Pedro Alvares Cabral, Tristao da Cunha, Alfonso de Albuquerque, Vasco da Gama, Lourengo de Almeida, et al.) ranged the seas from Greenland to Japan, netted an empire second only to Spain's. Like most nouveau riche nations, 15th-Century Portugal then began to take an interest in art. She carefully coddled a school of Portuguese painters, began a Portuguese Renaissance. Then...