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...York's Roman Catholic Archbishop Spellman got back to the U.S. last August from a 46,000-mile visit to 34 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, thousands of U.S. fighting men, Pope Pius XII, practically every top-flight Allied statesman and military leader, and Generalissimo Franco, and promptly published the highlights of his trip in Collier...
...soon as installment No. 1 appeared, the Archbishop found himself raked fore & aft by the U.S. Protestant, liberal and leftish press for his praise of Franco. Wrote Archbishop Spellman in Collier's: "My impressions of him are in accordance with his reputation as a very sincere, serious and intelligent man. . . . Whatever general criticism has been made of General Franco (and it has been considerable) I cannot doubt that he is a man loyal to his God, devoted to his country's welfare, and definitely willing to sacrifice himself in any capacity and to any extent for Spain...
...Archbishops Edward Mooney of Detroit, Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago, Francis J. Spellman of New York, John T. McNicholas of Cincinnati, Joseph F. Rummel of New Orleans and John J. Mitty of San Francisco; Bishops John F. Noll of Fort Wayne, John Mark Gannon of Erie, Karl J. Alter of Toledo and John A. Duffy of Buffalo...
...will restore Italy's pre-Fascist constitution. He will also invite the President of the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations to act as the Premier. This is Dino Grandi, former Fascist Ambassador to London, who is rumored to have engineered Mussolini's downfall. "After [Archbishop] Spellman's visit to the Vatican," Salvemini notes darkly, "[Grandi] was made a 'cousin to the King...
Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman lost his wallet. It was found in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, returned with its money to his office. Next day, although the finders' recollections of its contents had been revised upward from $500 to "nearly $700," the archbishop said that there had really been only $30 in the wallet. To reporters who wondered how he had continued his travels without money, he told no secrets...