Word: xii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Big Man up was Pius XII. Like some of the others, he had made private peace negotiations. Now, in the first encyclical of his reign, he grieved that "our advice, if heard with respect, was not, however, followed." Summi Pontificatus accepted War II as an inevitable finish fight, although its author pledged himself to try to "hasten the day when the dove of peace may find on this earth, submerged in a deluge of discord, somewhere to alight...
Peace by Encyclical? Nobody listened to the Reichstag speech with more attention than Pius XII. He canceled all Vatican engagements and gave his radio ear (he speaks German). The Pope was reported as being "favorably impressed by the moderate tone of the speech and especially by the fact that Herr Hitler did not utter drastic threats or set a time limit for acceptance of his peace proposals." Pope Pius suspended work on his peace encyclical pending further Allied reactions...
...Neither will TIME forget brainy Generals Nathan Bedford ("Git Thar Fust") Forrest, Daniel Morgan, Henry ("Light-Horse Harry") Lee, nor King Charles XII of Sweden, who rode two horses to death while reviewing a regiment...
...eyes now passes a vision of mad horror and gloomy despair. ... In a tumultuous life, this race has known hours of agony and periods of apparent death, but it has also seen days of uplift and resurrection." Pope Benedict XV said of Belgium: "Nations do not die." Pope Pius XII said of Poland: "Poland, which does not intend to die." And although he urged Poles not to give way to despair, not to harbor rancor through hate, he added to an audience of Poles who had begun to weep: "We do not say to you: 'Dry your tears...
...Pope Pius XII is sleeping on the floor so that he may participate more deeply in the world's suffering." So last week reported a "reliable Vatican source" to the secular press. Presently "authoritative Vatican circles" declared that they "deny and resent" such rumors. True it was that austere, saintly Pius XII was shocked and grieved by the destruction of Catholic Poland, whose Primate, Augustus Cardinal Hlond, arrived at the Vatican during the week. The Pope was profoundly apprehensive of the future of eastern Poland, occupied by godless Russians. But, said a Vatican voice, "even if the Pope fasted...