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...same Palazzo Venezia where he and U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson talked peace (TIME, July 20), Benito Mussolini last week summoned the directors of the Fascist Party for a talk very warlike indeed. He was not now dealing with States powerful in arms or economics. The Papal State could only hurt him morally. He thought it had hurt him morally when Pope Pius XI smuggled his anti-Fascist encyclical up to Paris for promulgation (TIME, July 13), and therefore Il Duce and his party directors issued a sizzling hot rejoinder last week. Excerpts...
...Encyclical Letter of His Holiness, Pius XI, by Divine Providence Pope"?thus last week began a document which was spirited out of the Papal State, past Italy's eagle-eyed frontier guards, and so to Paris. For this dramatic exploit the Holy See employed a young priest, modest, inconspicuous...
...best he could the young priest stowed them away, slipped with pounding heart out of the Vatican, penetrated Italy, rode demurely in a hot and rattling railway car for more than 24 hours, then faced grim but unsuspicious Fascist frontier guards who gave one scowling look at his Papal passport, let him go. After that it was easy for the young priest to carry his precious documents to their destination. Once in Paris, he turned them over to Catholic superiors who nodded approval when the young priest begged, "Please do not let the newspapers know my name...
Pope v. Pagan. In the Papal State experienced electricians cared last week for the wireless apparatus by means of which Pope Pius can instantly dot-dash an encyclical letter to Paris, should couriers lose their cunning...
Situation Which Provoked the Encyclical: up to last week the Italian Government had sent a total of two notes and the Holy See a total of five notes re- specting the Italo-Papal differences over suppression by Dictator Benito Mussolini of numerous Catholic clubs and the Society for Catholic Action (TIME, June 8 et seq.). His Holiness was getting no satisfaction, receiving no apology from the Italian Government. The world press had dropped the story from front-page headlines to inside squibs. By his 15,000-word encyclical Pius XI stirred slumbering interest as by a mighty trump (though...