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...Estergom, the German diocese of Breslau. Last week these points of friction and many another were neatly sanded down by the announcement that a modus vivendi had been signed between those two suave soothers of states and souls, Dr. Benes and the Papal Secretary of State, Pietro Cardinal Gasparri...
While Cardinal Gasparri held out for and secured to the Papacy the technical right of appointment, Dr. Benes was able to cover this trump with the proviso that Papal appointments in Czechoslovakia shall be made only with the consent of the State...
King Vittorio Emanuele, hearing of the advent of a baby Duce, wired his "cousin"* his warm congratulations, as did Pope Pius through his Secretary of State, Cardinal Gasparri...
...private library, he goes into long conference with Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, his secretary of state. Outside the room the Guardia Nobile, the Swiss Guard and a host of pontifical gendarmes move about in symbolical protection of His Holiness. When Cardinal Gasparri leaves, other papal officials enter for conference and instruction. Next come private audiences to royal persons, presidents and many another great one; then audiences to groups of half a dozen to two score persons who in unison receive the Pope's blanket blessings. This part of the day's work ends...
...Negotiations for the reconciliation of the Church and State are making gratifying headway, and we are confident that a settlement may be reached on a basis of justice to the Holy See." Such well-meant words are little more than wasted breath so long as the potent Pietro Cardinal Gasparri continues Pontifical Secretary of State, and voices now and then his unalterable opposition to a compromise with the Civil Power (TIME, Feb. 8). Cardinal Gasparri, realist, is conscious of the value of that dramatic martyrdom which surrounds His Holiness as the "Prisoner of the Vatican...