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...Creation, save Russians and savages listened raptly to the tremulous Latin of Pope Pius 261st authentic Roman Pontiff, when last week he inaugurated Vatican City's radio broadcasting Station HVJ. The Soviet Government had for bidden Soviet stations' rebroadcasting the speech. The savages lacked receiving sets. But all other peoples hearkened. Devout Catholics fell to their knees at the radioed sound of the Pontiff's revered voice. Non-Catholics listened intently, musing on the significance of this most modern manifestation of Roman Catholic extension...
...saying and with his ineffable little smile, the Supreme Pontiff threw an electric switch to inaugurate Vatican City's new electric lighting plant. Senator Guglielmo Marconi was present. The Pope recalled that when he was ordained a priest, the Vatican was dimly lit in some places by gas jets but chiefly by candles...
...Associated Press reported last week that "the Pontiff is submitting docilely but whimsically to a course of instruction through which radio experts and monsignori of his household skilled in diction are putting him. . . . Although the Pontiff will speak in Latin [over the radio Feb. 12] his advisers want his voice to carry over the air in such a manner as to thrill even the listeners who do not understand the words. The Pope has a clear, cultivated voice of rich timbre, but of moderate strength...
...bitter nationalism is diametrically opposed to that benign internationalism focused in Pope Pius XI, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church...
...that date, 60 years ago, Italian troops entered Papal Rome, surrounded the Vatican, ended the temporal power of the Pontiff. Lest Italians lose a holiday the Cabinet will decree that instead of Sept. 20 they shall hereafter celebrate Feb. 11. On that date, 19 months ago, Il Duce restored the temporal power of the Papacy by signing the Lateran Treaties which established the Papal State (TIME...