Word: papally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Comrade Litvinoff landed at Naples with a shout: "Here we are! The trip from America was grand!" On the train to Rome he flipped through the Papal daily Osservatore Romano which headlined CANNIBALISM IN RUSSIA and asserted the Russian people's "disillusionment and utter disinclination to work under the Communist regime." In Rome the roly-poly Red was received in private audience by His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele III and held a series of conferences with Premier Mussolini at which they secretly discussed disarmament and the Japanese trade menace before Comrade Litvinoff entrained for Moscowr...
...when asked whether President Roosevelt, by insisting that Russia reaffirm the religious rights of foreigners in the Soviet Union, had paved the way for a rapprochement be tween Moscow and the Vatican. "About that," he twinkled, "I do not want to make propaganda." With asperity in Vatican City the Papal newsorgan L'Osservatore Romano last week declared that Comrade Litvinoff's pledges to President Roosevelt on the freedom of religious practice in U. S. S. R. are not only worthless but "clearly mean ingless...
...Jubilee last week. A great glittering crowd had assembled in the sweeping crescent of the Heldenplatz before the former Imperial Palace. Hemmed in by glittering buttons and braid and feathers of the entire diplomatic corps, sat enthroned three scarlet-robed Cardinals and their Brother-in-God the Papal Legate from Rome. Bands played, a choir sang Schubert's Deutsche Messe and, grave with emotion, little Chancellor Dollfuss stepped forward and laid a wreath at the ornate bronze equestrian statue to Prince Eugene of Savoy, who helped defend Vienna...
...ante), His Holiness has had no need to consider himself any longer "The Prisoner of the Vatican," but he is widening his orbit of movement with extreme circumspection. One day last week he set out soon after dawn to make a second visit to high, cool Castel Gandolfo, a Papal property in which most Romans expect Pius XI eventually to summer. As His Holiness whizzed along with his Master of Ceremonies suddenly POW !-a tire blew...
Working fast, the Papal chauffeur had a new tire on in five minutes, sped to Castel Gandolfo where Pius XI inspected every appointment of the Summer Palace down to the vegetable garden, hen houses and kitchen. Early rising villagers received the Apostolic benediction. Then, still so early that socialite Romans had not yet tasted their breakfasts, the Papal motorcade whizzed back toward Vatican City. CRASH!-an Italian army plane came down out of control and cracked up in the Castel Gandolfo road, just after His Holiness had passed. By 10:15 a.m. punctual Pope Pius XI was back...