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...help Pope and President pursue (in the Roosevelt phrase) "parallel endeavors for peace" during the "phony war"; 2) to tune in on the reports Pius XII got from his diplomatic corps, then the best in Europe. But today Hitler's armies have packed most of the papal legates back to Rome, and the Vatican, with many more Catholics living under the swastika, has become more and more neutral while the U.S. grew more and more belligerent...
...radio address on "Papal Pronouncements and American Foreign Policy," Bishop Hurley cried: "Crusade forsooth! Not God, but the enemy of God, wills it; its standard is not the Cross, but the swastika which a great Pontiff called 'this foe of the Cross of Christ'; the rape of Poland is scarcely a recommendation for Christian knights; and the recluse of Berchtesgaden is badly cast for the role of Peter the Hermit. . . . America's attitude toward this new war should not be swayed by Nazi propaganda; it must be based on purely strategic considerations. The Nazi remains Enemy...
Axis hopes that the Pope would declare the Russo-German war a holy crusade against Communism were dashed by the Papal broadcast Sunday morning. Pope Pius did not even mention the new struggle in the course of his long and moving explanation of why a just and loving God permits such suffering and injustices as the war to be visited upon mankind...
...followed in Italy: as Prussia and Austria went to war, he picked Austria as the loser and attacked from the south. He was soundly trounced at Custozza, but he got Venetia in the peace settlement. When France was prostrate in the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 he annexed the Papal State, which Napoleon had protected. The peninsula was at last united. Proclaimed Vittorio Emanuele: "It only remains to make our country great and happy...
...Crown of Zvonimir was named for one Demetrius Zvonimir, who was crowned by a papal legate in Split in 1076. In 1089 the Croats killed him because they thought he had sold out to Rome. The 13 years of Zvonimir's rule were those of Croatia's broadest boundaries. The kingdom had an Adriatic coastline running from Fiume to Split and thrust inland almost to Belgrade. Croatian provincials have never forgotten that. Said the nationalistic Croatiapress in 1937: "Dalmatia, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Slavonia and Croatia ... are pure Croatian provinces and the Croatian people have the sole right to them...