Word: papal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later, M. Maklakov requested the Papal Nuncio. Monsignor Cerretti, to hand over the building to the Bolsheviki. It was believed that the Pope's Ambassador accepted the mission, but the report was unconfirmed. At all events, the royalist Russians removed all their papers and documents to another building before quitting the Embassy...
Some time ago, Premier Mussolini decided to put an end to the wide- spread misuse of titles in Italy. To that end he appointed a commission to inquire into the matter. Political wiseacres, almost without exception, foresaw the abolition of all papal titles bestowed since 1870 when the temporal power of the Papacy came...
Last week the Italian Government put to flight these notions. It recognized all titles bestowed by the Popes since 1870 and decided that they and any future creations shall be considered in every way equivalent to titles given by the Italian King. Moreover for a simple fee any Papal noble can have his name placed in the Golden Book of Italian nobility...
Another decree recognizing all Papal decorations without exception was expected to be submitted by the Cabinet to the King in the near future...
Argentina. The Argentine Senate requested the Government to inform the Holy See that its Papal Nuncio (Pope's Ambassador), Mgr. Giovanni Beda Cardinale, is no longer persona grata and that the Argentine Minister to the Vatican, Garcia Mansilla, will be replaced. No reasons for the action were given; but it was assumed that the Senate was displeased with the Pope for having appointed Mgr. Michele de Andrea Apostolic Delegate from South America instead of Archbishop of Buenos Aires; and peeved with Senor Garcia Mansilla for having failed to secure Mgr. de Andrea's nomination for the latter post...