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...years artists have been painting in remodeled fish houses on Rock Neck Avenue, two rival groups sponsored exhibitions, the Society of Artists holding a spirited, uneven, no-jury show on the second floor of a store building, featuring cheerful pieces by young, rebellious Lawrence Beall Smith and Umberto Romano; the North Shore Art Association, twice as big, and more than twice as dignified, giving its 16th annual show in which Gloucester scenes, fishermen and sailing craft predominated...
Pope Pius XI, since the Lateran Treaties of 1929, has been on good terms with Benito Mussolini. The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano has almost never spoken openly against the Government. Last week, however, it spoke sharply against antiSemitism: "Toward the Israelites we are not only extremely anti-Christian and anti-civil but inhuman. . . . Propaganda against Jews assumes, wherever it is organized and led, proportions unworthy of 20 centuries of Christian civilization!" That, at a time when semi-official Government newspapers had been indulging in anti-Semitic propaganda, was strong talk...
Osservatore Romano, semi-official news-organ of Pius XI, had busied itself printing the highest-powered extracts of an anti-Italian nature it was able to cull from the back files of German newspapers. In sum, these gems of Nazi thought extolled the Nordic races over the Mediterranean, and Osservatore Romano even found a Nazi press crack that Italians ought to have no difficulty colonizing in Africa "because the difference between them and Africans is not very great...
When Cardinal Innitzer emerged, he virtually retracted the plebiscite statement, declaring in Osservatore Romano that it "did not intend to be an approval of what was, or is, irreconcilable with the law of God and the freedom and rights of the Catholic Church. Besides, that declaration must not be interpreted by the State and by the party as an obligation of conscience, nor must it be employed for propaganda purposes...
...Vatican City the Papal Secretary of State, His Eminence Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, meanwhile held repeated earnest councils with Papal statesmen. The semi-official newsorgan Osservatore Romano announced indirectly that the Holy See had not known of what Cardinal Innitzer was about to do. Later in Vienna the Cardinal explicitly denied reports of his having acted on instructions from the Supreme Pontiff...