Word: dallas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes of the church, Editor Dalla Torre wrote, "capitalism is a social disease and a pestilence . . . Faithfully following divine teaching, the church has fought throughout the centuries against this human passion [for wealth], which together with ambition and the abuse of force represents the trio of humanity's greatest social demons...
Aging, portly Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre, editor of the Vatican's semi-official L'Osservatore Romano, chose a sensational moment to write an editorial against capitalism. Assembled in Rome last week for a four-day meeting were delegations of Roman Catholic employers from France, Canada, Belgium, The Netherlands, England and Italy...
...front-page editorial in L'Osservatore Romano, which rarely escapes the eye of Pope Pius XII, sounded as though it had been written by Henry Wallace instead of Editor Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre. It declared that the U.S. and Soviet Russia must learn to live together in one world, must "learn that in their realm of thought all opposing ideas can exist-must learn that or repeat 'Your death is my life.' " The conflict between Russia and the West is not primarily ideological, but material, said L'Osservatore, and to be understood in terms of security...
...title in an editorial. It called Russia a "great country," and drew a friendly parallel between the Pope's and Stalin's ways of dealing with some matters. The editorial concluded with three asterisks, the signature of L'Osservatore's papally inspired editor, Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre...
Bulky, balding Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre continued in the editor's chair of Osservatore Romano, was still flanked by bodyguards wherever he went. Within the Vatican, friends of the Allies grumbled that Pius XII's predecessor would not have let his newspaper be gagged. But the story went around that Pius XII had stiffened when Professor Guido Gonella, pro-Ally commentator for Osservatore, disappeared for two days. The Holy Father threatened a broadcast to the world. Professor Gonella reappeared...