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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secular diplomats have a big stake in treating the "Most Eminent Princes" of the Church as if they too were secular diplomats. Last week in Rome there was a prodigious whispering and bustling of emissaries around Cardinals' palaces. And in the Rome-Berlin axis there was some clumsy public hinting to the forthcoming conclave. In Germany Das Schwarze Korps warned the four German Cardinals against voting for an anti-Nazi Pope. Even less tactful was German Ambassador to the Vatican Carl-Ludwig Diego von Bergen, who, while conveying to the College of Cardinals the condolences of the diplomatic corps...
...This public hinting to the College of Cardinals pointed to the likelihood that, in private, there was tremendous pressure at work, probably more than at any time since the days when Catholic monarchs exercised a veto over the conclave. Wrote Michael Williams, U. S. Catholic journalist en route to Rome: "If certain powerful influences known to be deeply concerned both in Italy and neighboring countries are effective in their behind-the-scene maneuvers, the conclave will be greatly prolonged beyond the few days requisite for the slow and orderly movement of even the most obvious decision in the Vatican...
...Public health officers were amazed when George W. Leadbetter, State Health Commissioner of Maine, reported that there were 5,000 cases of scurvy among the lumberjacks and farmers of Aroostook County, on the northern border of the State. Reason : thousands of Aroostookians are unemployed, with no money to buy lemons or oranges, and not many of them had taken the trouble to grow and can tomatoes, which are especially rich in Vitamin...
...usual blazed away with both barrels at U. S. bureaus and agencies, called some of them outright "enemies of conservation." Of the Bureau of Fisheries: "The exhaustion of fish resources has no parallel." Of the CCC: "The opportunity for tremendous advancement was largely muffed." Of the Bureau of Public Lands: "... a past record of exploitation crimes which prohibit its claim to any part in national conservation." Of the average citizen: "As unconscious of the objectives ... of national planning as Ferdinand the Bull. . . . Both of them just love to smell flowers, but that is as far as they go." And having...
...Paderewski's political adventures had left him weary, disappointed and short of cash. For several years he remained a recluse, remembered by the public only for an occasional smouldering outburst on the state of affairs in his native Poland. He had not touched the piano for four years. Rumors spread that the great Paderewski had forgotten how to play. But in 1922, his red-gold hair now silver, Paderewski staged a comeback, proved that he was still the only living virtuoso who could gross half a million dollars on a U. S. concert tour...