Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second?That absolute sovereignty over this territory be vested in the Pope, inhabitants of the new Papal State being deemed subjects not of the King of Italy but of the Supreme Pontiff...
Third?That the Holy See delegate suitable territory in the new Papal State to the Italian State for purposes of civic administration...
Fifth?That the Papal State and the Italian State formally recognize one another and exchange ambassadors...
...sense, Pope Pius XI would be free to emerge from the Vatican and might even tour the U. S., as did King Albert of the Belgians. Once more there might be belligerent Papal troops, and a revival of the Church Militant in its non-Catholic connotation?i.e., a political state ruled by the Pope in an absolute capacity. Presumably, however, the neutrality of the Papal State would be even more studied and scrupulous than Belgium...
...mention of the proposed Concordat was made by Il Duce or Il Re. The favorable disposition of His Majesty is well known; but less than a year has passed since Editor Arnaldo Mussolini, brother of Benito, roundly declared in II Popolo d'ltolia that no possibility of a Church-State agreement then existed (TIME, April 9). However the Papal spokesman said, last week, that the rapprochement to which he referred had been negotiated "since September last...