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Maltese rejoicings at the narrow escape of Prime Minister Baron Strickland from a would-be-assassin who fired at pointblank range (TIME, June 2) were about to culminate in the singing of a glad Te Deum in St. John's Cathedral at Valletta last week, when suddenly this hymn in praise of God for what he had done was countermanded by Archbishop Caruana...
Among the ignorant rabble a fearful rumor spread: the fact of three misses at close range was the work not of God but of the Devil! An assumption grew that the Death of Baron Strickland would have been sustained with a minimum of sorrow by Archbishop Caruana and his superiors...
Nearly every potent civilian on the island of Malta is a Roman Catholic, but bitter and never-ending is the feud between pro-Italian and pro-British factions, between the Archbishop of Malta and Prime Minister Baron Strickland. During the War, doughty John Miller, roughest hooligan anglophobe, had to be locked up with German and Austrian prisoners. Last week Mr. Miller proved that his hate of Britain has not cooled. He attacked the prime minister as he entered the Court of Appeal, fired one shot point blank and two others as he struggled with police. All shots missed...
...Baron Strickland seemed dazed, almost paralyzed for a moment as the first bullet whizzed by, then, without moving or speaking, he suddenly smiled, and smiling entered the Court to testify against supporters of the archbishop...
After a thorough investigation of the Maltese squabble, Father Robinson reported back to Rome in such terms that the Supreme Pontiff became vexed with Baron Strickland and, leaning toward his opponent, made it possible last week for the Archbishop to announce that either reading or selling of pro-Strickland papers...