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...Violent Incident occurred when bushy-bearded Communist Deputy Maffi shrieked that the demonstrations in Mussolini's honor did not reflect the feelings of the laboring classes...
...time when the Italian Government is dropping courtesies to the Church of Rome and the latter is significantly but coldly observing the amenities, His Eminence Cardinal Pietro Maffi, Archbishop of Pisa, chose to issue a pastoral letter to his flock on the subject of "Thou shalt not kill...
...Eminence Cardinal Maffi is 67 years of age. Like the Pope, he has a hobby- Science, in which he is extremely well versed. In appearance, he is a typical Romano- high forehead, heavy overhanging brows, full mouth, quantities of white hair which was once jet black. His ideas are modern, too modern for some of his followers. Not long ago, he proposed at his own expense to erect a statue to Galileo, famed scientist, equally famed as a heretic. Pisa went mad. Nevertheless, he is extremely popular and is known as the "War Cardinal" because he advocated a fight...
...Rome, the Osservatore Romano, official loudspeaker for the Vatican, printed extracts from Cardinal Maffi's letter; no other newspaper dared follow suit for fear of suppression. But the Osservatore Romano, in its turn, did not deem it politic to ignore the sage words of one of the mightiest Princes of the Church...