Word: pius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Prince Franz Josef II, 38, ruler of the tiny (65 sq. mi.), neutral Principality of Liechtenstein; and Princess Georgine, 23, blond, onetime Austrian countess; their first child, a son; in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Name: Johannes Adam Pius. Godfather: Pope Pius...
...Russian publications go, Soviet War and the Working Class circulation is small (200,000); but as a triggerman for Soviet targets abroad (Herbert Hoover, Chiang Kaishek, Pope Pius XII, John L. Lewis) the magazine is closely watched by diplomats and newsmen. Last week its first English-language edition had arrived in London by air-to be followed fortnightly by 20,000 copies for distribution in the U.S., the British Empire, Latin America, the Middle East and China...
...next day, Harry Hopkins visited Pius XII. The Pope had dressed as he would to receive the head of a state -in a red-velvet, ermined mozetta, more elaborate than his usual garb. Only Myron C. Taylor, the President's personal minister to the Vatican, was with Hopkins and the Pope, and no outsider knew what was said...
...name of the principal emissary-Harry Hopkins. But some papers managed to use his name anyhow. After he had conferred with Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden in London, then with Charles de Gaulle in Paris, the censors passed the news that he was off to Rome to visit Pope Pius...
Three Asterisks. The Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, rebutted Pravda's criticism of Pope Pius XII's Christmas statement of Vatican policy (TIME, Jan. 8). The rebuttal itself was not notable, but its tone was: it departed from L'Osservatore's custom by referring to Marshal Stalin by name and title in an editorial. It called Russia a "great country," and drew a friendly parallel between the Pope's and Stalin's ways of dealing with some matters. The editorial concluded with three asterisks, the signature of L'Osservatore...