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...trip. When after several days of balloting it became obvious that he was going to be elected Pope, he fled in consternation from his fellow cardinals. Msgr. Merry del Val, later his Secretary of State, found him in the Pauline Chapel on his knees, his head buried in his hands. "Monsignor, you can persuade them. Tell them not to vote for me," Sarto pleaded. When the commander of the Noble Guard went to take his first orders, the new Pope offered him a chair with his own hands. When the commander protested, the Pope said sadly: "It was nice...
...MSGR. GIOVANNI BATTISTA MONTINI, 56, and MSGR. DOMENICO TARDINI. 65, pro-Secretaries of State, who run Vatican diplomacy under the Pope's direct supervision (since the death of Cardinal Maglione, in 1944, the Pope has not appointed a new Secretary of State, has since remarked: "The man would have to be my shadow, and I haven't found one"). Montini, in charge of day-to-day operations, is thin, suave, cool, precise, and politically a middle-of-the-roader. Tardini, in charge of long-range planning, is thickset, jovial, sharp-tongued, and further left...
...various shades of agreement and disagreement at the discussion of "Censorship in Boston" were The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Francis J. Lally, editor of the Boston Pilot, and Gerald A. Berlin, director of the Commission of Law and Social Justice of the New England Division of the American Jewish Congress...
Berlin generally agreed with Miss Hughes in her opposition to censorship and emphasized the inconsistency and poor execution of censorship laws. Msgr. Lally, however, noted the need for censorship by law when it does not come from within. He said that "human freedom is not free at all," giving an example of the green light which gives one person the freedom to cross the street, although a red light binds someone else...
...Msgr. Lally backed his statement about limitation on freedom with examples about the control of newspapers, calling the American press an "almost totally censored press...