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Return Novarum. Forty years ago last week, the long-headed little old man in the Vatican peered out into the revolutionized industrial world and saw that all was not going to be peaceful. To 81-year-old Gioacchino Vincenzo Pecci, His Holiness Pope Leo XIII, who had been Civil Governor of Benevento and Governor of Perugia and far more a man-of-the-world than his dogmatist predecessor Pius IX, it seemed a good moment for Mother Church to say her say about social and industrial reform.' So he composed and issued a great encyclical entitled Rerum Novarum ("Concerning...
...Year"). To the world Press and to a throng of the faithful assembled last week at the Vatican for the occasion was handed another long document, an official resume of Quadragesima Anno, Pius XI's encyclical on the social and industrial world of today, amplifying and interpreting Leo XIII's. Finally, a throne and microphone of gold and silver were set up in the Courtyard of St. Damascus and the Pope came forth in person to address the workers and employers of the world...
...wayside. After college and the War he and Wilson went to Manhattan to play the literary game, ran Vanity Fair together, published a partnered book, The Undertaker's Garland. Then Wilson went on to higher things, Bishop to France and Italy. He lives near Paris in a Louis XIII house. Many Thousands Gone (containing the Scribner $5,000-prize story of that title) is his second book. His first: Green Fruit (poems...
...Alfonso XIII, King of Nowhere, Duke of Toledo, was comfortably settled in his quarters in Fontainebleau last week. Correspondents who have called him the ablest politician in Spain followed his maneuvres with interest...
...Gleeful Labor M. P.'s called Alfonso XIII "Mr. Bourbon, late of Madrid" in a lively debate on the ex-King's status last week. Although Great Britain has recognized the Spanish Republic, George V insists that Alfonso XIII be called "King Alfonso" and thus far the British Government has done...