Word: malta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...position which has been created by the intervention of the Vatican in the affairs of Malta" (TIME, June 2 et seq.), said Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald in the House of Commons last week, made it necessary for "His Majesty's Government, with considerable reluctance" to "sanction a temporary suspension of the [Maltese] constitution...
This meant that on the Island of Malta the local parliament ceased to exist last week and Governor Sir John Du Cane began to rule by Royal fiat. In the House of Commons Isaac Foot (Liberal) roused Catholic indignation by observing...
...Vatican City last week the Secretariat of State of His Holiness Pope Pius XI issued their White Book in reply to the British Blue Book on Malta (TIME, June 16 and 23). In effect the Anglo-Papal quarrel has simmered down to this...
Granting, as both parties do, that many a Roman Catholic priest in Malta told his flock that to vote in a certain way would be a "mortal sin"* (for which absolution would be refused), does this constitute interference by the clergy in political affairs...
...More cautious than many of these priests, the Archbishops of Malta and Gozo declared in their joint pastoral letter (TIME, June 16) that it would be a "grave sin" and the Vatican's White Book says that priests who exceeded this limit have been "recalled...