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Before falling ill last week the Pope turned his attention to another democratic nation, England. He appointed Monsignor William Godfrey, rector of the English College in Rome, to be Apostolic Delegate in Great Britain-the first representative of the Pope in Protestant Great Britain since the 16th Century. Not a diplomatic official like a Papal Nuncio, an Apostolic Delegate acts as liaison between the Vatican and the Catholic hierarchy of a nation. Monsignor Godfrey will have access to the British Foreign Office, may well be able to report to the Pope, at firsthand, on Britain's dealings with Germany...
Walter Lippmann sent the committee a telegram saying he was "glad to contribute $100." Monsignor John A. Ryan also sent a telegram of approval and "heartily endorses" the refugee plan...
...life long friends of the Supreme Court Justice, who on Sunday celebrated his eighty-second birthday, spoke on Brandeis preceding the unveiling. They were Monsignor John A. Ryan of the Catholic University at Washington, D. C. and Charles C. Burlingham '79, former president of the Association of the Bar of New York City...
...Monsignor Ryan praised the Justice for his "shining and inspiring example to all who love America." According to Ryan, as a legislator, as an industrial statesman, and as a fundamental democrat, Brandeis was ever seeking Social Justice. "He is one of the two or three generally conceded great Americans of our times...
...speakers, both life-long friends of Justice Brandeis, will be Charles C. Burlingham '79, New York lawyer, formerly president of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and Monsignor John A. Ryan, of Washington, Professor of Moral Theology and Industrial Ethics at Catholic University...