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...statesmen talked peace at Hyde Park in the autumn of 1936. One was gaunt, dark-eyed Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli. Papal Secretary of State. The other was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Last year Cardinal Pacelli became Pope Pius XII. Last Christmas President Roosevelt, striving to halt World War II, recalled their talk of peace on earth. To the Pope he wrote: "In their hearts men decline to accept for long the law of destruction forced upon them by wielders of brute force. Always they seek . . . to find again the faith without which the welfare of nations and the peace of the world...
...Fragoso Carmona shared prominence in the Cathedral with General Francisco Jose Pinto, special envoy from onetime colony Brazil; Nicolas Franco, Spanish Ambassador and brother of El Caudillo, and British Ambassador Sir Walford Harmood Montague Selby. To cheering mobs outside His Eminence Emmanuel Cardinal Gonc,alves Cerejeira read a Papal Bull dated 1179 recognizing the full independence of Portugal...
...liberated his country and became its first king. According to pious tradition, his Army was reinforced by a legion of militant angels. From then on the history of Portugal became a kaleidoscopic cavalcade of conquest, exploration, staggering defeat, decline, intrigue and adversity. With barely 1,500,000 inhabitants, by Papal Bull Portugal in 1494 divided the entire world with Spain, drawing an imaginary line from the North to the South Pole 370 leagues west of Cape Verde and leaving all land discovered west of it to Spain, while taking all to the east for herself...
Pius XII was reported to have sent his last peace appeal, in his own handwriting, to II Duce. Disregarded in the Vatican, denied in Washington, was a rumor that President Roosevelt had offered the Papal Court a refuge in the U. S., or transportation to any other place the Pope desired...
...real estate, he tumbled deep into debt, has continued in this condition ever since. Still in business, he helps run the city Democratic machine, heads charities, is a director of the highly respectable Board of City Trusts. Among other distinctions, he is one of Jewry's few Papal Knights...