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...time since 1870 several cabinet ministers had officially entered St. Peter's. This was possible because the Papacy and the government of Italy had just patched up their 59-year-old feud by a treaty (TIME, Feb. 18); and now a papist host had met for joyful and pious celebration. "Il Papa! Il Papa!" shouted the throng, which had now increased to a full 200,000. "Il Papa Consolatore! Il Papa Consolatore...
...Eastern province of Shantung. Famine stalks through groveling villages, and the towns are mostly held by a Japanese expeditionary force, similar to U. S. Marines in Nicaragua. Last week, however, there were signs that Shantung's problems will soon be mightily wrestled with by China's big, pious, go-getting Christian, Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang...
...aggression of Germany and her allies"; but the Locarno Pact (1925), refers to "the peoples upon whom fell the scourge of the war 1914-1918." Thus Germany has progressed officially, from the status of a culprit self-confessed and solely guilty, to that of membership in a community of pious sufferers. Needless to recall, the hypothesis of sole guilt is bindingly included in an article (No. 231) of the Versailles Treaty, while the quotation from the Locarno Pact is taken from its mere preamble and is therefore not binding?though enormously significant...
Commentators recalled that the Prime Minister's pious wife has said that she sees in his rise to Power the inscrutable working of "Divine Providence...
Plot: The pious folk of a Russian provincial town fiendishly conspire against a kindly atheist professor of zoology and his wife (Mme. Lunacharsky). The professor is expelled from his post, after the Christians "frame" him in such fashion as to make it appear that he is a pervert. Reduced to penury, the professor's wife is seduced by the man who framed him; and this "Holy Devil" then proceeds to poison...