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After the Council of the League of Nations had been at work on Italy and Ethiopia for a few days last week, the Holy Father Pius XI addressed 15,000 War veterans of 15 nations in the Basilica of St. Paul's Outside the Walls thus: "It is with inexpressible joy that, if we have well understood, we seem to see on the black horizon a rainbow of peace which seems to diffuse its rays over the world. This is peace made of justice, charity, honor, dignity and respect for all rights. It is peace which announces happiness for everybody...
...years ago Pope Pius XI reappointed Monsignor James Hugh Ryan to his second five-year term as rector of the Catholic University of America (Washington, D. C.). Later he made a titular bishop of that broad-faced, black-browed philosopher who had rebuilt the nation's only pontifical university (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933). Last week the Pope named Bishop Ryan, 48, to succeed Most Rev. Joseph Francis Rummel of Omaha, now Archbishop of New Orleans. Catholics viewed as a promotion this transfer to a thriving diocese with no financial troubles. Needing no further consecration, Bishop Ryan will be installed...
...cover July 22, 1935. TIME's only rule in selection of cover subjects is newsworthiness. Thus, George V and Stanley Baldwin have in twelve years each appeared five times. Four-timers are Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Ramsay MacDonald. Typical of the 15 three-timers are Pope Pius XI, General Chiang Kaishek. Two-timers number 56, include Adolph Hitler. Mussolini, Carter Glass, Huey Long, Helen Wills...
With Roman temperatures averaging 77° last week and likely to go higher in August and September, 78-year-old Pope Pius XI directed his household to make ready to move out this week for a two-month stay at Castel Gandolfo. the rustic papal snuggery in the Alban Hills...
...Pope Pius XI will then be 93, will have reigned the longest of any of the 261 Popes except Pius...