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Benito Mussolini and Pope Pius XI were reported last week to be more irritated with each other than they had been in years. Mme Geneviéve Tabouis, famed French liberal journalist, declared that Mussolini was infuriated because the Pope, in condemning Fascism's new anti-Semitic policies, and in throwing the Church's weight behind Italy's Catholic Action (lay organization), had cried: "Who strikes at the Pope, dies." She asserted that Mussolini was full of Napoleonic ideas of waging open war against the Vatican, that the Pope was fearful, that the Holy See was considering...
Died. Antonio Ajello, 78, master candlemaker; of a heart attack; in The Bronx, New York. To Mussolini, Pope Pius XI, Lindbergh, Galli-Curci, Marie of Rumania, many another big & little wig have gone sweet-scented Ajello tapers, fashioned from a formula that has been a family secret for 165 years. Most famed Ajello candle, world's largest, is 18 feet high and five feet around, weighs almost a ton, cost $3,700. Raised by public subscription in 1921 as a memorial to Enrico Caruso, it now stands in the Church of Our Lady of Pompeii (Italy), where it burns...
Until last fortnight only the semi-official Papal newspaper, Osservatore Romano, had dealt with Italy's burgeoning racism. Twice thereafter, however, Pope Pius XI himself spoke publicly against it. Last week the aging Holy Father, in a speech to Catholic seminarians visiting him at Castel Gandolfo, summed it up in the most vigorous words he has uttered for years. Pounding home his recently-repeated point that "Catholic means universal," the Pope said: "We regard racism and exaggerated nationalism as barriers raised between man and man, between people and people, between nation and nation. ... All men are, above all, members...
...Pope Pius XI, since the Lateran Treaties of 1929, has been on good terms with Benito Mussolini. The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano has almost never spoken openly against the Government. Last week, however, it spoke sharply against antiSemitism: "Toward the Israelites we are not only extremely anti-Christian and anti-civil but inhuman. . . . Propaganda against Jews assumes, wherever it is organized and led, proportions unworthy of 20 centuries of Christian civilization!" That, at a time when semi-official Government newspapers had been indulging in anti-Semitic propaganda, was strong talk...
...Pope Pius XI (Sun. 12 a.m., NBC-Red) broadcasts his benediction to Canada's Eucharistic Congress...