Word: xii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pincers Close. From a line be tween Metz and Nancy, Major General Manton S. Eddy's XII Corps had jumped off in midweek, behind an artillery barrage so heavy that, according to one correspondent, the firing sheets looked like railroad timetables. Next day 1,300 heavy bombers came. The weather was too bad for close support, but they dropped 4,000 tons of bombs on Metz itself and on Saarbrücken...
...Catholic Campaign" is a shoddy piece of smear. That issue treats the Church with TIME'S typical journalistic skulduggery regarding things Catholic. It would throw a sop to the gullible in the form of a picture of Pope Pius XII and Sister Mary Elaine. Do not palm the smear off on the pretense of freedom of the press. That item makes news only because it throws dung at the magnificent structure of the Church...
...liquidation of the center of the fascist infection in Spain [is necessary] for the future security of Europe. . . . As he loses his main support-Hitlerite Germany-Franco looks to other forces for aid. One of his best allies is the Vatican. Pope Pius XII could be called Franco's 'godfather...
Catholicism's Pius XII* spoke of the Reich, where he had served long years on diplomatic missions. Said he: "[I will] follow developments of postwar Germany with love and, if necessary will give her . . . help...
Many thought the Cardinal's trip had a larger, undisclosed purpose. Was Cardinal Villeneuve carrying a message to Pius XII from Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill? Cried the Vatican: "Fantastic!" But observers noted that when Cardinal Villeneuve went in for his hour's talk with the Pope, he carried a bulky envelope sealed with five wax seals. He came out without...