Word: montini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With One Voice? The official White House announcement pointed out that 37 countries maintain diplomatic relations with the Vatican. Their representatives attend Vatican ceremonies, vouch for countrymen who request papal audiences. They call frequently at the red-walled office of Monsignor Giovanni Battista Montini, Under Secretary of State for ordinary affairs, to exchange information from other lands. Under a new committee-of-cardinals secretariat soon to be established, a U.S. ambassador would deal largely with a cardinal appointed to handle North American affairs, probably an American...