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Died. Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, 82. longtime (1914-29) Papal Secretary of State, first Cardinal since the 11th Century to hold that office under two Popes; of pneumonia following influenza; in Rome. In 1929 anti-Fascist Cardinal Gasparri and No. 1 Fascist Benito Mussolini signed with gold pens the famed Lateran treaties restoring the diplomatic and temporal status of the Papacy after a 59-year break...
Canada and Peru saw two Secretaries of State before they rose to office-Cardinals Merry del Val and Gasparri. In 1823 there arrived in Chile a priest named Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti. who was to become Pope Pius IX ("Pio Noro"). In Buenos Aires wise Catholics will gaze speculatively on the austere features of Cardinal Pacelli, for he will undoubtedly be a man to be reckoned with when the present Pope, now 77, dies and the Princes of the Church gather in the Sistine Chapel to elect a successor...
...present opposition to the Child Labor Amendment. Describing the conclaves for elections of Popes in 1914 and 1922, for both of which he arrived in Rome too late to vote, the rugged Cardinal does not set down the peppery remarks he made after the second one to Cardinal Gasparri who was in charge. Nor does Cardinal O'Connell refer to the fact that he, a shrewd organizer whose power is supposed even to have extended to sponsoring Boston's famed theatrical censorship, has sometimes been called "The Pope of New England...
...raising of the Cross in the Coliseum, the Chicago and Dublin Eucharistic Congresses, the opening of the Holy Year last April-there is much excited Roman bustling, with crowds surging, clerical robes flapping in the breeze, prelates gesticulating, nodding, signaling. In the signing of the Lateran Treaty, Cardinal Gasparri has pen in hand, treaty before him. With a stout finger he points-here; a prelate points-there; he points back - here; and signs. The Shepherd of the Seven Hills is accompanied throughout with choir-singing and the unctuous voice of Radio Narrator Basil Ruysdael...
...seen by people too far away to hear him. Significant shots: 1) the Dictator's completely self-effacing wife standing gracious and well dressed beside Il Duce, who seems genuinely unaware of her existence, at the marriage of their daughter Edda to Count Ciano; 2) Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, paying no visible attention as Premier Mussolini reads to him parts of the Lateran Treaty, and having to be energetically roused and instructed by a young Catholic cleric as to just where to sign the various copies of the Treaty...