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Under the wings of a U.S. Army transport Iran's high, hot plateau flowed past. In the wasteland below Special Passenger Francis Joseph Spellman, Archbishop of New York, Roman Catholic Military Vicar and unofficial envoy of the Vatican, lay tumbled the ruins of palaces built by ancient Persian conquerors; across it snaked a railway and motor road pulsing with Lend-Lease for Russia...
...Weaver. What had brought the Archbishop to Teheran, to the southern gateway of the first Communist State? In an amazing four-month odyssey Francis Spellman had journeyed about 15,000 miles, stopped in 16 lands;* he would go on to India and China. He had chatted with soldiers in Britain, given alms in Malta, scanned the front in Tunisia, prayed in Jerusalem. Yet he had spent many hours in secret talk with statesmen and dignitaries, and around his plump, energetic figure swirled a fog of rumor and speculation. In that fog last week the Allied and the Axis world thought...
...Church was above the war. The Vatican maintained ties with Germany, Italy and Japan. But its relations with the Nazi Reich had never been worse than they were this week. Its relations with the United Nations seemed never better. In the muffled, intense activity of Vatican diplomacy, Francis Spellman, the grocer's son who may wear the red hat, seemed to have a key role...
Safe in London after flights to Italy, to North Africa, to Britain, New York's Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman (see p. 41) left Paddington Station in a limousine which promptly struck a parked car, crumpled a fender, smashed a wheel, blew a tire. The Archbishop was shaken but uninjured, planned to fly back to Africa next week...
...from traveling to the Vatican. Sometimes the Pope creates a Cardinal in petto (in the breast, i.e., he keeps it a secret until he wishes to announce it). Many American Catholics hope that Pius XII may have created New York's Archbishop Francis J. Spellman a Cardinal in petto when the American prelate was at the Vatican a month ago. Last week Archbishop Spellman flew from Algiers to Cardinal Hinsley's funeral...