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...Salta as the conference city recognized neutral Argentina as a meeting ground congenial to the Fascist-minded. But opposition to the conference developed from the Argentine people, the majority of whom are sympathetic to the United Nations' cause. Neither Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello of Buenos Aires, nor the Papal Nuncio, the Most Rev. José Fietta, approved of the congress...
...Papal Count. Laval's politically ambitious daughter Jose, swarthy as her father, became his right-hand woman. They traveled together in Italy, Russia and the U.S., where Laval hobnobbed with Herbert Hoover at the White House. Through daughter Jose, Laval reached into French aristocracy. Jose married young Rene de Chambrun, son of the onetime French Ambassador to Italy, descendant of Xa-fayette, nephew by marriage of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Through the De Chambruns, Laval met Marshal Petain. Laval eventually rose so high as to be made a Papal Count...
Died. Tommaso Pio Cardinal Boggiani, 79; in Rome. Made Bishop of Adria in 1908, he was instructed to transfer the seat of the diocese from Adria to Rovigo, was stoned as he carried out his orders. Made Papal Nuncio to Mexico in 1912, he was recalled in 1914, in the midst of the revolution. He became a Cardinal...
...long arm of Hollywood reaches into every province of the manners and mores of our time; it does not, except obliquely and occasionally, touch the ideologies of our day." In 1936 Pope Pius XI testified to the importance of the cinema by devoting a special papal encyclical to it. So did Clark Gable when he took off his shirt in It Happened One Night and revealed that he wore no undershirt. That gesture cost U.S. men's underwear manufacturers a 40-50% cut in business with-in the year...
Died. Lorenzo Cardinal Lauri, 76, Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church; in Vatican City. He succeeded Pius XI as Papal Nuncio to Poland (1921-27), negotiated the Concordat between the Vatican and the Polish Republic...