Word: papally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pius XII upset Vatican tradition, turned a new papal face to the world last week...
...fall of Rome, Pope Pius XII spoke to the College of Cardinals on a matter close to his heart. Clothing his thought in undulant papal prose, he begged the Allies to reconsider their stated war aim: unconditional surrender. Said he, in part...
Other defense measures taken during the past six months: 1) increase of the efficient, well-equipped Swiss Guards from 100 to 600 men; 2) increase of the Pontifical Military Guard (papal gendarmes, who ordinarily police palace and gardens) from 800 to 3,300 men; 3) quadrupling the Palatine Guard of Honor to 2,000 men. This small army has been equipped with modern weapons. The Vatican walls have been prepared for machine-gun defense "should the occasion arise...
...small Vatican flag has two equal vertical stripes, yellow and white, carries the papal insignia. Until 1860 the Vatican had a small armed navy, used chiefly against pirates...
Radio Berlin next reported that Harold Tittmann, the U.S. Chargé D'affaires at the Vatican, had informed Cardinal Maglione, Papal Secretary of State, that the U.S. would rebuild the monastery. The Cardinal was supposed to have replied: "Even if you rebuild it in gold and diamonds, it still isn't the monastery...