Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus for the first time official cognizance was taken of the King's mental state, a subject that has been worrying official circles for the past month. The King's physical improvement is all that could be expected. He eats and sleeps well. He walks, leaning heavily on two nurses, from one room to another, and sits by an open window for hours, watching the horses exercise on Bognor sands. But he does not seem able to concentrate on anything for more than a few minutes. It was said that this is the reason the Prince of Wales has paid...
Editors and news folk generally were informed last week, by representatives of the Holy See, in what terms they are to couch stories about the Pope and the Vatican, now the former has resumed temporal sovereignty and the latter has become a state (TIME...
...never run too smoothly to suit the precise mind of the six-foot-five-inch ruler, and yet recently a number of annoying little accidents have happened to His Majesty. A fat Frenchman fell over his feet in the theatre at Cannes (TIME, Feb. 25). He paid a State Visit to Madrid, only to have the Queen-Mother of Spain die suddenly (TIME, Feb. 18). So it has gone. Last week King Christian returned to Denmark from the Riviera, determined that if possible, this voyage should be uneventful...
Expostulating in Rome, Count Dalla Torre, Editor of the Papal news organ Osservatore Romano, and recognized by most Catholics as the temporal spokesman for the Pope, declared that news arising out of the new Papal state is not "political." Acknowledging that "foreign newspapers, with few exceptions" are treating temporal news of the new Papal State as "political news," Count Dalla Torre explained in a signed editorial that the Holy See's reconciliation with the Italian State was "entirely religious." It is believed in Rome that Count Dalla Torre never signs an editorial until it has been read...
...thinking and writing of 'temporal power' and 'temporal sovereignty' this should be remembered and the fact made known: The new Vatican State, in area, will be only about one quarter of a square mile, or something like 160 acres...