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France's Charles de Gaulle felt it, though he and Franklin Roosevelt supposedly reacted on each other like flint and steel. Head bowed, the General signed his name in the register of bereavement at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. Pope Pius XII felt it. He was at his desk in the Vatican when word came. Britain's King George felt it. He and Queen Elizabeth, remembering a past picnic at Hyde Park, had been looking forward to a visit soon from Franklin Roosevelt and to putting him up at Buckingham Palace. Now their Court Circular, for the first...
...drew into San Damaso courtyard in Vatican City. Out stepped dapper, grey-haired Edward J. Flynn of The Bronx, fresh from Cairo, Moscow and Yalta. Eight minutes ahead of time, he and dark-clad Myron C. Taylor, Presidential representative at the Vatican, hurried to the private study of Pope Pius...
Born. To Prince Franz Josef II, 38, ruler of the tiny (65 sq. mi.), neutral Principality of Liechtenstein; and Princess Georgine, 23, blond, onetime Austrian countess; their first child, a son; in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Name: Johannes Adam Pius. Godfather: Pope Pius...
...Russian publications go, Soviet War and the Working Class circulation is small (200,000); but as a triggerman for Soviet targets abroad (Herbert Hoover, Chiang Kaishek, Pope Pius XII, John L. Lewis) the magazine is closely watched by diplomats and newsmen. Last week its first English-language edition had arrived in London by air-to be followed fortnightly by 20,000 copies for distribution in the U.S., the British Empire, Latin America, the Middle East and China...
...next day, Harry Hopkins visited Pius XII. The Pope had dressed as he would to receive the head of a state -in a red-velvet, ermined mozetta, more elaborate than his usual garb. Only Myron C. Taylor, the President's personal minister to the Vatican, was with Hopkins and the Pope, and no outsider knew what was said...