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Wrong, All Wrong! Because people never take very seriously a man who is frankly fuming with rage, Viscount Snowden's charges and resignation might have been ignored last week, had not the Cabinet's orthodox Liberal pontiff, Sir Herbert Samuel, simultaneously resigned as Home Secretary, together with nine other Government Liberals. These ranged from stuffy Sir Archibald Sinclair who resigned as Secretary of State for Scotland, to brilliant Lord Lothian (the onetime Philip Kerr) who as Under-Secretary of State for India has been the Cabinet's brains in that quarter. (So indispensable was Lord Lothian found...
...fold. Lux Veritatis treats in great detail the judgments of the Council of Ephesus, summarized thus: "Thatin Jesus Christ the true natures, divine and human, are united in one only divine person (hypostatic union); that the Virgin Mary is the true Mother of God; and that to the Roman Pontiff belongs by divine right a supreme and infallible authority over the whole church in matters of faith and morals." The Pope is "confident that [Protestants and Eastern Christians] becoming convinced by history, life's teacher, will be able to feel at least a longing for one fold under...
...Pontiff. Peculiarly and paradoxically is Samuel Seabury fitted to sit in judgment upon the wily rulers of the world's greatest city. A reformer by inclination, he is no fanatic; he uses the conventional means of the law. A representative of the Better Element, he has had political experience more varied than the most cunning double-crossing ward heeler. Pontifical are the remarks which he makes in a soft baritone about the weather. Even his manner of blowing his nose in court is sonorous, distinguished. He also has imagination and a sense of humor...
...Italian Government. The world press had dropped the story from front-page headlines to inside squibs. By his 15,000-word encyclical Pius XI stirred slumbering interest as by a mighty trump (though the Italian Government took no visible notice). Presumably with direct reference to Benito Mussolini, the Supreme Pontiff thundered...
...wisdom last week the Supreme Pontiff gave bishops throughout Italy "discretion"' to relax his ban in their dioceses. Instantly Antonio Cardinal Ascalesi, Archbishop of Naples, approved processions in honor of St. Anthony. Neapolitans, fit to burst for the past two weeks with suppressed eagerness to parade, were filled with...