Word: xii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Received from Pope Pius XII an answer to his Christmas appeal for parallel efforts for peace (TIME, Jan. 1). The Pope also wrote that hopes for peace were not bright, that "we are fully aware of how stubborn the obstacles are that stand in the way . . . and of the consequent slight probability of immediate success so long as the present state of the opposing forces remains essentially unchanged...
Died. One of the three pet canaries (all pure yellow without mark of any other color) of Pope Pius XII; in Vatican City. While the Pope lunches, as according to court etiquette he must alone, he used to let them out of their cage to fly around...
Last week the two Kings of Sweden and Norway spoke up boldly. Surrounded by stalwart Life Guards cloaked in the gaudy uniforms Charles XII designed for them over two centuries ago, King Gustaf V opened the Swedish Riksdag by declaring: "Finland's involvement in armed conflict touches the Swedish people. . . . Sweden feels an obligation to give Finland's brave people every material humanitarian help which is possible while heeding its own position." Finance Minister Ernst Johannes Wigforss indicated what form that heeding would take. He presented the first 2,000,000,000-kroner (about $476,600,000) budget...
...visited the Holy Father in the Vatican, as they had his predecessor. Last week the King bestowed the Supreme Order of Santissima Annunziata upon Luigi Cardinal Maglione, Papal Secretary of State. This decoration, which makes its owner an honorary "cousin of the King," has long been held by Pius XII. Next, the Holy Father gave Foreign Minister Count Ciano a moderately good decoration, the Order of the Golden Spur. The Vatican whispered that this week Il Duce is to pay a formal call on Il Papa (although the Pa lazzo Venezia was not so sure), and that this spring...
...well aware of these happy auguries, the Roman-born Pope left Vatican City one morning last week. It was raining. He wore a red hat and cape, insisted that his car, in a procession of 18, be open so that his people could see him. At the Quirinal, Pius XII doffed his wet garments, proceeded to the grand staircase where Vittorio Emanuele and his Court awaited him. As the King began to kneel, the Holy Father graciously motioned him up, restrained him from kissing the Ring of the Fisherman. At the head of the stairs, the Queen and Royal Princesses...