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...same Palazzo Venezia where he and U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson talked peace (TIME, July 20), Benito Mussolini last week summoned the directors of the Fascist Party for a talk very warlike indeed. He was not now dealing with States powerful in arms or economics. The Papal State could only hurt him morally. He thought it had hurt him morally when Pope Pius XI smuggled his anti-Fascist encyclical up to Paris for promulgation (TIME, July 13), and therefore Il Duce and his party directors issued a sizzling hot rejoinder last week. Excerpts...
...Fascist Directorate protests against the LIES . . . contained in the foreign comment obtained from Vatican sources, criticizing the Balilla [Fascist boys'] organization, which is the strength, pride and certainty of the Fascist régime...
...Fascist Directorate vigorously protests against the affirmation in the recent papal encyclical according to which the Fascist oath is taken for the sake of bread, or career, or life. . . . It rejects the grave insult. . . . The Fascist Party . . . is a fighting organization on a military pattern, which made a revolution and has the imperious duty of defending it against everyone...
...Directorate . . . rejects with indignation . . . the statement contained in the recent encyclical-which was nothing short of a veritable appeal to foreigners-that Freemasons are again highly regarded in the ranks of the Fascist Party. . . . But in this connection the Directorate must point to the monstrous alliance which has been formed between the Vatican and Freemasonry, which are now tied by their common hostility to the Fascist régime...
...Less Grave." In the Vatican, Pope Pius pondered the Fascist retort. He was disturbed by the extent of the controversy which has raged ever since Lavoro Fascista charged editorially that the Vatican's 15,000 Catholic Action clubs were meddling in politics and the Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, made it a political war (TIME, June 8 et seq.). The Pope was more disturbed by the manner in which his encyclical had been interpreted as a challenge. After he had pored over Mussolini's retort, he let it be announced that he felt relieved. The Vatican spokesman said...