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...fall of Rome, Pope Pius XII spoke to the College of Cardinals on a matter close to his heart. Clothing his thought in undulant papal prose, he begged the Allies to reconsider their stated war aim: unconditional surrender. Said he, in part...
Other defense measures taken during the past six months: 1) increase of the efficient, well-equipped Swiss Guards from 100 to 600 men; 2) increase of the Pontifical Military Guard (papal gendarmes, who ordinarily police palace and gardens) from 800 to 3,300 men; 3) quadrupling the Palatine Guard of Honor to 2,000 men. This small army has been equipped with modern weapons. The Vatican walls have been prepared for machine-gun defense "should the occasion arise...
...small Vatican flag has two equal vertical stripes, yellow and white, carries the papal insignia. Until 1860 the Vatican had a small armed navy, used chiefly against pirates...
Radio Berlin next reported that Harold Tittmann, the U.S. Chargé D'affaires at the Vatican, had informed Cardinal Maglione, Papal Secretary of State, that the U.S. would rebuild the monastery. The Cardinal was supposed to have replied: "Even if you rebuild it in gold and diamonds, it still isn't the monastery...
Biggest deal so far this season came when J. Myer Schine acquired the swanky, 300-room Roney Plaza Hotel, 18 years old, from Papal Marquis George MacDonald. The price: $1,601,000. Terms: cash. The deal was interesting: when the famed Roney Plaza opened in 1926, J. Myer Schine was strictly nobody. In 1918 he opened his first movie theater modestly in Gloversville, N.Y. It was an old roller-skating rink which he converted with a borrowed $1,500. Last week Schine, now owner of a chain of some 150 theaters in New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland, lolled...