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Rome has only two afternoon newspapers: the Fascist Giornale d'Italia and the Catholic Osservatore Romano, semiofficial organ of the Holy See. When Germany invaded Poland last September, Osservatore Romano's circulation jumped from 40,000 to 130,000 during the Polish campaign, because it was the only paper in which Italians could read news from both sides. Later, Editor Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre decided to limit his paper's circulation rather than risk making trouble (TIME. April...
...Cremona Regime Fasdsta: "Since September . . . Osservatore and the Holy See have had a common cause with the Allies." Last fortnight, when German troops suddenly moved into Holland and Belgium, Pope Pius XII sent messages of sympathy to Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, King Leopold of the Belgians; and Osservatore Romano, in a burst of indignation, let itself go again. That day Editor Dalla Torre printed 150,000 copies, speeded up the Vatican's little press until it almost shook apart...
Besides printing every pronunciamento, bull and encyclical which the Pope may issue, Osservatore Romano's, editor, blond, stocky Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre, has found occasion in the past to denounce athletics for women as a cause of sterility, condemn anti-Semitic feeling in Italy. No punch-puller is Editor Dalla Torre. More than once Osservatore Romano has dubbed Herr Hitler "Antichrist." Before World War II Osservatore Romano had a circulation of 40,000. A few copies went to Catholic editors in other parts of the world, most of the rest were sold on the newsstands of Rome...
Then came the Polish Blitzkrieg, and Osservatore Romano's, circulation rocketed to 130,000 copies daily. Reason: it was the only newspaper in Rome to carry full, and reasonably impartial, dispatches from the front...
...more disturbed by the sudden popularity of his paper than Editor Dalla Torre himself. Lest Osservatore Romano become a political storm centre, Dalla Torre limited its circulation, steadfastly refused to print more than 95,000 copies. Last week Osservatore Romano was one of few newspapers left in Europe which still had a relatively free hand in reporting war news and international politics. Then, probably due to Fascist pressure, Osservatore Romano began to slow its drift toward a pro-Allied stand...