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Last month Dr. Giacobini wrote to the Pope, asking him "in my capacity as founder and president of the Partido Salud Publica" to end the war. He has not received an answer, but he is convinced that Archbishop Spellman's visit to the Vatican (TIME, Feb. 22) was closely related to his letter. Elated by this success, Dr. Giacobini decided last week to address similar epistles to President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, offering himself as Mediator for World...
Apparently under pressure from Berlin, Rome retracted. But Allied speculation was increased by: 1) the visit of New York's Archbishop Francis Spellman to the Vatican (TIME, Feb. 22); 2) reports from Swedish sources that Finland hoped to make a deal (see below). Semi-official consensus from London and Washington: Keep eyes & ears open, but do not expect peace before victory...
Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman, a chubby little man with twinkling eyes, looked down from the plane's windows on to the red & gold of Spanish soil, stretching below like a scarred and, crisscrossed piece of hide. From the air the land looked peaceful. But its people were sullen, impoverished, embittered, under a Fascist dictatorship which had claimed that the Spanish Civil War was a crusade for the Roman Catholic Church...
...Frank Spellman was the first American bishop ever consecrated at St. Peter's in Rome, and he may have been called to Rome to receive the red hat of a cardinal. It was also possible that he had been called to discuss political problems involving the servants of the Church. Whatever his mission, Archbishop Spellman's visit concentrated the attention of world diplomats on the Vatican for the second time within a fortnight...
Fastest-growing diocese in the whole Roman Catholic Church is the U.S. Diocese of the Army & Navy. Head of this world-sprawled See, with the title of Military Vicar, is New York's genial Archbishop Francis J. Spellman. Since he must shepherd over a million of the faithful in his own Archdiocese, the real work of the Army & Navy Diocese falls on his military delegate, lanky, Spanish-speaking Bishop John F. O'Hara, onetime president of Notre Dame. And Bishop O'Hara is so busy that last week the Pope gave him an assistant...