Word: pius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pope Pius XII was televised. At a Vatican demonstration, the Pope amused himself with the apparatus for more than an hour, posing in front of the camera and watching himself on the screen. From now on, the Vatican announced, the Pope will have...
...throne followed by his Queen, Isabella. His eyes were downcast and glued to his outturned feet for fear he might trip on his trousers. When at last he stood at the top, the crowd applauded. Pedro started to prostrate himself to kiss the Pope's slipper, but Pius, quicker than he, put out a restraining hand and proffered the papal ring instead. Then the two talked, and tears welled in the old King's eyes...
...next day Evita, usually tardy, was ready ahead of time, dressed appropriately in ankle-length black dress and long black cape, for her audience with Pope Pius XII. The Pope talked to her for exactly the customary 30 minutes, had kind words for her husband's concern for Argentine underprivileged, his aid to war-torn countries of Europe, his contributions to papal charities. At interview's end, the Pope gave her a handsome rosary. Then Evita went on to visit the Borgia apartments (which are still haunted, Italians say, by the ghosts of libertine Pope Alexander...
...Medal. Not until 24 hours later did the Argentine Embassy to the Holy See receive the decoration to mark Señora Perón's visit. A Vatican messenger delivered a little red box containing the eight-pointed, diamond-laden Grand Cross of the Order of Pius IX,* with wide blue ribbon edged with red. It was for President Perón, will make him "Knight of the Great Ribbon...
...front-page editorial in L'Osservatore Romano, which rarely escapes the eye of Pope Pius XII, sounded as though it had been written by Henry Wallace instead of Editor Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre. It declared that the U.S. and Soviet Russia must learn to live together in one world, must "learn that in their realm of thought all opposing ideas can exist-must learn that or repeat 'Your death is my life.' " The conflict between Russia and the West is not primarily ideological, but material, said L'Osservatore, and to be understood in terms of security...