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Cardinal Pacelli got out of this dilemma by having his great friend, Monsignor (now New York's Archbishop) Francis Spellman, hustle copies of the encyclical to France by plane. But the incident made a deep impression on Pacelli. Soon he had equipped the Vatican with a short-wave radio station ("for research and propaganda"), a new electric powerhouse, a fleet of modern automobiles (gifts of the manufacturers) to replace the old carriages, electric elevators, 800 telephones (the Pope's telephone is solid gold stamped with the Papal Arms and the trade-mark of International Telephone & Telegraph...
...Archbishop of New York, Francis J. Spellman, home from a six-month trip (to Spain, Italy, England, Africa, the Near East), explained that he had spent more time visiting military hospitals than originally planned, declared that "from these visits I have received many consolations. . . ." To reports that he had been on a diplomatic mission, his answer was simply that he had traveled as a private citizen and Military Vicar of the U.S. He looked forward to Italy's surrender, he said, as a hastener of peace and "an opportunity ... to the United Nations to show how they intend...
...role as military vicar for the armed forces of the United States, Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York, played host to the Catholic chaplains of the Army Chaplains' School here at a dinner meeting Wednesday night in the Copley Plaza Hotel. Heading the group of more than 100 chaplains who attended was Colonel William D. Cleary, commanding officer of the school...
...been serving with the Army on numerous stations since 1918, the award of this office, which carries the title of Right Reverend Monsignor, was made for outstanding and conspicuous service to the country as well as to the Church. Upon his return from the war zone, Archbishop Francis Spellman, head Catholic Chaplain of the U. S., will invest the Colonel with his new robes of office...
...Francis Spellman knew the temper of America's 23,000,000 Catholics, among the most intransigent foes of Communism. Whatever he could do to further rapprochement between the Vatican and the Kremlin would make it that much easier for the future of U.S.-Russian relations...