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...cardinal entrained for Rome, there must have rung in his ears the German words of a broadcast from the powerful Vatican radio station, in which the words "worthlessness and faithlessness" were applied to "shepherds" actions" which greatly resembled his own. Although the Vatican insisted that this broadcast, made by an anonymous Jesuit, happened entirely by coincidence, its observations on "political Catholicism" were pat and pointed. "False political Catholicism" the Jesuit defined as an attitude, either of the "simple faithful or officials in public life," which consists in "an exaggerated carefulness of tactics and in a weak adaptation to established...
China's new Premier, moonfaced, middle-aged Dr. H. H. Rung, welcomed to bomb-peppered Hankow last week his highly-revered young relative, Duke Kung, the handsome head of the House of Kung, which is revered because it descends from China's greatest sage, Confucius (Kung Fu-tze, died 478 B. C.), of whom Duke Kung is the 76th lineal descendant...
Today in Cairo modern gadgets like the telephone are still so interesting to the natives that an Egyptian Cabinet Minister will usually answer in person anyone who dares to ring his number. Very soon last week new Premier Mahmoud was garrulously chatting with British journalists who had simply rung him up from London...
...this pledge that sorely tried George VI will not abdicate, although he probably will cease broadcasting, the Duke of Windsor, who night before had rung up his brother and mother at Sandringham for a Christmas chat, listened at Cannes on the Riviera...
...Duke this week wrote an impassioned letter to the London Times, disclosing that two reporters had tried to climb into his house through a window to get a look at King Leopold, had sought to enter His Majesty's railway compartment, had rung up in "bad French" on the telephone. "To what depths," wrote the Duke of Portland, "have certain members of the press descended...