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...Italy, on an inspection tour of U.S. Navy installations, Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball stopped off at the summer papal palace at Castel Gandolfo, was received with his wife and staff by Pope Pius XII...
Pope Pius XII, a bit under the weather with a slight fever and a mild cold, canceled all audiences for the remainder of the week. But by week's end His Holiness felt well enough to appear at a window overlooking the inner courtyard of the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo to give his blessings to a crowd of 300 pilgrims...
...Shops, offices, banks, even Vatican City's Sistine Chapel, were closed up tight, though St. Peter's, as always, stayed open. Garbage went uncollected. milk undelivered, newspapers unpublished and tourists unsolicited by the prostitutes in Villa Borghese park. At his summer palace of Castel Gandolfo. Pope Pius XII rested for a couple of days; so did Premier Alcide de Gasperi and most of his political friends and enemies. Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti spent the weekend hiking in the Alps with a collection of village Communists...
Elaborate attempts have been made by statesmen from both parties to strike a truce-but they could not control the countryside partisans. More recently the Catholic Church, bulwarked by an appeal from Pius XII and parades displaying great fervor for peace, tried to halt the war but failed. Now the only limitation on the ferocity of the struggle seems to be the amount of arms the guerrillas can smuggle over the border or seize from dead policemen...