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...reassuring words." He has had our expression of "regret"' countered the State. But that was not "reassuring," objected the Church. Comic was a discovery at the Italian Foreign Office that mixed with the morning's mail was an unstamped diplomatic note of the first importance from Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State. How did it get there? Not through the mail. It was not brought by the Papal Ambassador, for he had not called. Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, no Sherlock Holmes, shrugged: "An unseen messenger seems to have brought it?most unusual...
...mankind leads one to suspect that he may have suffered from some psychic maladjustment. Perhaps the root of the trouble lay in his peculiar emotional relationship to his mother. . . ." The period of troublous popes (904-963) he says "is often spoken of even by Catholic historians as the Papal Pornocracy;" but he does not credit "the curious legend that one of the popes was a woman in disguise...
Neither State nor Church made public last week any documentary proof of anything. Blanket Fascist charges were met by blanket Papal denials...
Italians love intrigue, stealth. In Rome last week currents and cross currents of intrigue wove a maze. One day it was Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, great ex-Papal Secretary of State, who had emerged from retirement to reconcile Vatican and Quirinal. Next day it was Marquese Francesco Pacelli, brother of the new Papal Secretary of State, Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli. Next day it was two other Papal diplomats...
...Italian League for Catholic Action (Azione Cattolica) is no longer nonpolitical, has become in fact the mechanism for putting into action a Catholic political plot. This plot, II Lavoro charged, was discussed at a recent conclave of Azione Cattolica, addressed by Monsignor Pizzardo, Under Secretary of State of the Papal State. He advocated, according to Il Lavoro, action by Azione Cattolica to seize the Italian State and set up a "Catholic dictatorship." What happens in hot-blooded countries when they are highly organized soon happened. A marching column of young Fascists pounced on a Papal State mail truck, halted...