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...Fascisti obey the Party and its Duce, think with it and him (as best they can). Further on in his letter Pope Pius accused Fascisti of "exposing youth to inspirations of hate and irreverence . . . rendering difficult and almost impossible the practice of religious duties . . . and . . . permitting public exhibitions of feminine athletics, the improprieties and inconveniences of which even pagans realized...
Settling down to a quiet routine after its celebrated debut last February (TIME, Feb. 23), Vatican City's broadcasting station HVJ put Pope Pius XI on the air last week for the second time. Europe (not the U. S.) heard scholarly lectures by members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences: Rev. Father Giuseppe Gianfranceschi, director of the station, on the technical aspect of the Vatican's radio waves; Professor Anile on the origin of languages; Professor Navas on Oriental insects. Then said His Holiness...
...Count John Hadik, who, once Hungarian premier, is now a member of the upper house of the Hungarian Parliament; in Washington, D. C.; by Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., who concluded the service by reading a cablegram from His Holiness Pope Pius XI blessing the couple "as a pledge of heavenly favor...
...last minute, suspense had been terrific lest Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI should forbid Luigi Cardinal Lavitriano, Archbishop of Palermo, to officiate. Well the Holy Father knew that at this wedding there would be present those two accursed agitators for the Royalist cause in France, Editor Leon Daudet of L'Action Française and his doughty fellow editor, Charles Maurras. If they were present as guests, declared the Supreme Pontiff in his final ultimatum to Monseigneur le Due de Guise, then no Cardinal could possibly officiate...
From Rome, Pope Pius cabled a special relief fund...