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...bells of the Kremlin tolled the May Day hour (10 a.m.) as Joseph Stalin, in fawn uniform and chipper mood, stood on Lenin's marble tomb to take the adulation of a million marchers. His son, Lieut. General Vasily Stalin, flew above Red Square in the van of the mightiest Soviet air show; there were 64 four-engined bombers where last November there had been 22. "Comrades," orated Chief of Staff General S. M. Shtemenko, on the rostrum beside Stalin, "a crisis is approaching in capitalist countries...
Still unanswered is the big question: Have the diggers found the tomb and perhaps the bones of St. Peter himself (TIME, Sept. 5)? Writes Msgr. Ludwig Kaas, administrator of St. Peter's, who has been in charge of the top-secret excavations...
...Peter's Tomb...
...years, beneath the towering immensity of St. Peter's basilica in Rome, the Vatican's hereditary corps of workmen, the Sampietrini, have been painstakingly excavating a city of the dead. First discovered during the preparation of a tomb for Pope Pius XI in February 1939, this labyrinth of ancient Roman and early Christian sepulchres has been unearthed, often with bare hands, from the soil with which it was filled by Constantine before he built the first St. Peter's (begun...
...believer who has passed through the excavated necropolis, who has observed how its street leads directly below the foundations of the first southern bronze pillar of the Bernini altar, and thus into the immediate vicinity of the place assigned by Christian tradition to St. Peter's tomb, succumbs to the silent but eloquent logic of his surroundings. Certainly the discoveries so far made constitute a solid basis for serious discussion on the question which occupies so many minds. Those who believe in the Catholic tradition of St. Peter's burial place below the church will, in the light...