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...Monsignor Spellman's side stood his two assistant consecrators, Monsignor Francesco Borgongini Duca, Apostolic Nuncio to Italy, and Monsignor Giuseppe Pizzardo, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs. A choir sang. As Monsignor Spell man approached, it hushed; the assistant consecrators bowed slightly. Petitioning that Monsignor Spellman be made a bishop, Monsignor Borgongini Duca gave to Cardinal Pacelli the apostolic mandate. Then the Cardinal began to catechize the priest who had once been an assistant to his secretariat. Catechized, Monsignor Spellman was assisted up the steps to the altar, where he kissed the episcopal ring...
...almost nothing except a small house in Naples which was presented to him by popular subscription after the War. The house he left to his son, last week, bidding him not to sell it except in direst need. Such was the last request of one whom Italy created Duca della Victoria (Duke of Victory) and who chose for himself the motto: "Better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep...
Foreign Ministers Eduard Benes of Czecho-Slovakia, Momtchilo Nintchitch of Yugo-Slavia, Jon Duca of Rumania were reported by an official communiqué to be in agreement upon all the points they discussed. The necessity of further cooperation and of closer permanent relations was, however, emphasized. Recognition of Russia was left to the independent action of each nation, but admission of Germany to the League of Nations was agreed to by all three Ministers. The most vital question today agitating the peace of Central Europe (the possible attack upon Rumania by Russia on account of Bessarabia) was not discussed...
Last week Bucharest was in a frenzy over the rebuff. Paunchy Prime Minister Bratiano had informed the monarchs that they could not got to Rome under Mussolini's humiliating conditions. In the Rumanian Parliament, Foreign Minister Jon Duca, inveighed as follows: "We did not expect that the visit of the royal family, intended to strengthen the relations between the two countries, would be associated with dirty financial interests." Loud cheers...
...Cardinal Gasparri, Secretary of State, is received every day except Tuesday, when Mgr. Borgongini-Duca, pro-secretary for extraordinary ecclesiastical affairs, comes, and Friday when Mgr. Pizzardo, Assistant Secretary of State, comes...