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Your Feb. 23 issue contains C. E. Allen's letter berating TIME for claiming the highest office in the world for the President of the U.S. He feels that this honor should go to Pope Pius XII as the "Vicar of Christ on earth . . ." No Protestant will admit that the Pope is infallible, or that he is envoy of the Lord on earth. Such assumption is incorrect, because the Pope is a simple, human gentleman of great culture, elected to his office by other mere mortals-many less than it takes to elect a President...
Still convalescing from his month-long siege of influenza, Pope Pius XII canceled his routine private and public audiences as the only celebration of his 77th birthday and the 14th anniversary of his election to the papal throne...
...TIME claim the office of President of the U.S. of America to be the "highest office in the world?" While realizing that the office of President carries with it tremendous power and responsibility, I should think that the world's highest office is that of the Pope. Pope Pius XII is the leader of more than 400 million people and, as the Vicar of Christ on earth, is surely the most exalted person in the world...
...days after the President's decision was announced, the world was startled by another disclosure, from an unexpected source. Pope Pius XII, said L'Osservatore Romano, semi-official Vatican newspaper, had personally intervened in the Rosenberg case, had asked the President for clemency. In the labyrinthine phrases of L'Osservatore (which are all but unintelligible to most Americans), it appeared that the Pontiff had appealed directly to Eisenhower. "As he has mercifully done in other similar cases," said L'Osservatore, "so also in this one he has not failed to intervene insofar as it was permitted...
...papal appeal for clemency is grounded on long precedent. As special emissary of Benedict XV in World War I, the present Pope journeyed to Berlin to deliver a fruitless appeal to spare the life of Nurse Edith Cavell. And in 1944, Pius XII again asked the Germans for mercy-and was refused again-in the slaughter of 335 Italians in the Ardeatine caves near Rome. During the Spanish Civil War, Pius XI was successful in persuading General Franco to spare the lives of several Loyalist prisoners...