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...belt. Last week His Majesty said a stiff good-by to Italian General Pariani, long attached to the Albanian Government in the capacity of kibitzer extraordinary and unofficial boss (officially he was "Military Adviser to Albania"). Back to Italy also went Archbishop Delia Pietra to confer with Pope Pius XI about King Zog's recent bold closing of Italian schools throughout Albania. According to members of His Grace's entourage: "Albanians educated at Italian expense show a distressing tendency to remain Albanian in ideology...
Meanwhile long-jawed Alfonso XIII happened to be in Rome paying his respects to Pope Pius. Day after the law was signed came a ringing Papal encyclical, Dilectissimi Nobis ("To our most dear") Bishops, Clergy, and People of Spain. Excerpts...
Last week Chancellor Dollfuss and his Minister of Justice Kurt Schuschnigg journeyed to Rome, were separately received by Pope Pius. Following their audiences came word that a new Austro-Vatican concordat had been signed, providing that 1) Bishops must be approved by the Austrian Government; 2) Religious marriages will be recognized by the Government as legal; 3) Doctrinal education will be entrusted to the church...
Birthdays. Pope Pius XI 76, Egyptologist Sir Flinders Petrie 80, Samuel Unter-myer 75, King George...
Andre Fournet was declared "Blessed" in 1926. This spring in secret consistory the Pope and his Cardinals voted canonization. Last week Pius XI left the Vatican for the third time in this Holy Year, proceeded solemnly to St. Peter's. On one platform were kinsmen of St. Andrè, a nun who said her life had been saved through his intercession, and representatives of the Daughters of the Holy Cross. On another were President Eamon de Valera of Irish Free State, Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria, Princesses Germaine of Habsburg-Lorraine and Elisabeth of Bourbon-Parme. The Pope assumed...