Word: nuncios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stupid Democracies. No small feather in the Führer's bonnet this year was the attendance of virtually the entire Berlin diplomatic corps for a 48-hour flying visit to the Party Congress-hitherto boycotted by democratic diplomats. Noticeable absentees last week, however, were the Papal Nuncio, the Soviet Ambassador. Conspicuous among the foreign envoys were sad-eyed Prentiss Bailey Gilbert, U. S. Charge d'Affaires (who attended over the vehement protest of his chief, vacationing Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd), who is expected soon to resign, Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson, British Ambassador, and Andr...
...apartment, placed upon a candlelit table. Vested in rose garments, Pius XI prayed over the Rose, incensed it, poured balsam and musk into a tiny cup in its centre. The Golden Rose will be presented to Italy's Queen after Easter by Monsignor Borgongini Duca, Papal Nuncio to Italy...
During the War Monsignor Pacelli was appointed Nuncio at Munich. That nunciature was the channel through which many, an important diplomatic negotiation was carried on between the warring nations. Nuncio Pacelli was entrusted with Benedict XV's famed peace proposals which German liberal politicians seriously considered. Later, in the first of Germany's numerous small putsches, Pacelli was nearly assassinated in the streets of Munich. With the founding of the Weimar Republic he established a nunciature at Berlin, arranged concordats between the Vatican and Bavaria and Prussia before returning to Rome in 1929 to accept a Cardinal...
...President of the Republic, sad-eyed M. Albert Lebrun, the Ambassadors and Ministers of the European States and the Papal Nuncio in his silk skirts gathered at the Sorbonne last week to see flicker and jiggle on a screen three strips of streaked and yellowed cinema film, each only three yards long...
...distraction of this sort was offered last week. The Apostolic Nuncio, Monsignor Cesare Orsenigo, as Dean of the Corps, conveyed its formal greetings in French, though he can speak German. The Realmleader, who speaks only German, stoutly replied, "Our relations with other nations shall be determined by the spirit of equality...