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...King which then began has now been so thoroughly patched up by the Treaty signed last fortnight that next June, according to announcements made last week, the Royal State Coach will clatter up to the Vatican, and King Vittorio Emanuele III will pay a call which the Supreme Pontiff will speedily return...
...imprisonment" in the Vatican and restores the Supreme Pontiff to temporal power...
Seldom enough is such a treat vouchsafed to the Supreme Pontiff; for it seldom snows in Rome, and since 1870 no Pope has left the Vatican. Last week, however, came joyous confirmation of the news (TIME, Jan. 14) that Pope Pius will soon cease to be "the Prisoner of the Vatican," self-cooped in his own palace because of a quarrel with the Italian Government...
Second?That absolute sovereignty over this territory be vested in the Pope, inhabitants of the new Papal State being deemed subjects not of the King of Italy but of the Supreme Pontiff...
...infidels might even lower in sedate winks. But General Umberto Nobile clung to the medal as tangible proof that his pious deed of dropping a large Papal cross on the North Pole (TIME, June 4) has found highest favor in the eyes of the Most Blessed Father and Supreme Pontiff, Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI. Enthusiastic, His Holiness sent along with the medal his "warmest congratulations," and finally imparted a solemn Papal blessing...