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...diplomatic threads that Francis Spellman was helping to weave, many an observer saw the tint of the Vatican's age-old wisdom. The threads were certainly many, and these might be among them...
...Perhaps in a half-dozen audiences granted by Pius XII to Francis Spellman, there had been talk of the possible adjustment of Allied "unconditional surrender" policy to the Vatican's desire for a stable, conservative, loyally Catholic Italy...
...Perhaps Francis Spellman had talked over the project of a Catholic Federation of Central Europe with envoys in Rome and Ankara...
...most absorbing speculation concerned a rapprochement between the Vatican and the Kremlin, involving, rumor said, a visit by the Archbishop to Moscow, perhaps from Teheran. It was a dizzy prospect to dwell on, for Communism and Catholicism have been archenemies through a bitter quarter century. Yet Francis Spellman may have talked to Russian envoys in Ankara. The dissolution of the Comintern (TIME, May 31) had come in the midst of his mission, and it must have pleased the papacy. The Vatican radio had begun broadcasts to Russia, friendly in nature and designed to dispel the Russian people's "complete...
...Francis Spellman were promoting a rapprochement, his activity would stem from realism. In postwar Europe, home of 220,000,000 Roman Catholics, or two-thirds of the Church's world flock, Russia will play a considerable role. Further, Soviet influence will probably be dominant in the Balkans, where the Roman and Orthodox Churches share sway. The Vatican and the Kremlin may well find their affairs somewhat mixed up together...