Word: xii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfolding that it almost seemed that Pacelli was fated to be Christ's Vicar on Earth. For from the moment when he was ordained, Pacelli never left the shadow of the Vatican: it was as if he was being familiarized with his destiny. And as Pope Pius XII he donned the triple crown which some said had been his for several years...
...Pius XII, therefore, Eugenio Pacelli faces the difficult task of strengthening the position of the Catholic Church in a world troubled by numerous totalitarian states which will not countenance a powerful, established church within their boundaries. He has shown his capabilities in his former diplomatic positions. Whether he can stave off the attacks of the totalitarian states as well as build up the prestige of the Catholic Church in the more friendly democratic nations remains to be seen...
...Times lost an average of five pages of advertising each Sunday while the Herald Tribune made a fractional gain. Ordinarily such a record calls for prolonged professional crowing, but the Herald Tribune has been in no mood to crow since Sunday, November 21, when the paper carried as "Section XII" a 40-page glorification of Cuban Boss Fulgencio Batista's illiberal regime...
...Section XII brought the Herald Tribune $32,000 from the Cuban Government and business interests. The U. S. Postal regulations require that when material of this type-is carried second class, it must be labeled Advertisement. This regulation caused the Tribune its first headache, since the section was merely announced as "written and presented by friends of Cuba." From the Post Office the Tribune got a warning, replied with an apology. From public opinion it received the most damaging attack that a U. S. newspaper has had to stand for since a Hearst photographer dangerously crowded Col. Charles Lindbergh...
...liberal press was, of course, warmest in its condemnation of Section XII. Said the Nation: "The Herald Tribune has got away with the publication of paid propaganda at a nice profit. The money that swelled its advertising revenue came out of the hide of an oppressed nation...." To which New Republic added: "It is a portrait which everyone informed about the situation in Cuba knows to be fantastically remote from the truth." The advertising director of the New York Times, in a confidential memorandum to his staff, which was picked up and reprinted by the Guild Reporter, recognized the moral...