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...richest province and the Vatican has become increasingly dependent on it for financial support. Now that South America, with its 61,000,000 Catholics, is working in antitotalitarian harness with the U. S., the Vatican may soon be put on the horns of a dilemma. One horn is tacit participation in the spoils of Fascist victory-which patriotic Italian bishops (who, like Cardinal Kinsley, do not necessarily represent the Vatican's views) have steadily urged since June. They want the Vatican to take suzerainty over the Holy Land, should Italy seize it. The other horn would be to oppose...
...warning only was the Nanking decree. Neither Britain nor the U. S. speaks to Wang Ching-wei: they could not obey his order without granting tacit recognition to his Government. As long as the seven newsmen stay inside Shanghai's International Settlement, they are safe from arrest. The six who are U. S. citizens cannot be deported anyhow without a trial before the U. S. District Court for China...
...greater part of its history the U. S. has lived under the umbrella of protection provided by the British Fleet. Until World War I the U. S. never attempted to claim naval parity and by that time was thoroughly satisfied with a century-old tacit understanding which made the two fleets not rivals but complements of each other...
...lost. Baudouin persuaded him to call in Pétain, who was mortally afraid of Communism if the war dragged on with France losing. Baudouin switched his allegiance from Reynaud to Petain, whose closest adviser was Pierre Laval. These men made peace and took over France with the tacit consent of Hitler-moved by what ultimate motives only history can judge...
Third strike and out on Mr. Taylor-the Catholic Church's tacit participation in the spoils of Fascist victory-last week became a distinct possibility. To Il Duce went a telegram from 30 Italian Bishops, urging him to crown "the unfailing victory of our Army" by planting the Italian flag over Jerusalem. In England, the Manchester Guardian reported that the Axis powers plan to turn Palestine over to the jurisdiction of the Vatican and transport Palestine's Jewish population to Ethiopia...