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...opinion of Zita it is about time that her Otto received proper publicity in Vienna, for he reaches his majority next November. She therefore staged the first full-dress Habsburg funeral in Vienna since the War. Pope Pius XI is supposed to favor the candidacies of Otto, which would account for the presence of beak-nosed, bald-headed former Prime Minister Seipel, a Monsignor. Quite unimportant was the presence of the dead man's father, Archduke Leopold Salvator von Habsburg who recently published his piquant autobiography: From Archduke to Grocer (TIME...
Catholic Italy is not like Catholic Malta, whence last week Pope Pius XI received a sharp rebuff. In Milan one Eugenio Bassani, shopkeeper, recently spoke his mind. Last week he was convicted of "speaking ill of the Pope," was fined 1,000 lira ($52.39), sentenced to six months in jail...
...Holy See informed His Majesty's Government that they "could not consent to a concordat on Malta so long as Lord Strickland [a Roman Catholic] remained in power." Vexed to the bottom of his stubborn Glasgow soul, Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson made his final reply to Pope Pius XI by withdrawing the British Minister to the Holy See, Henry Getty Chilton...
Impious Fascist aviators zoomed low over the Vatican last week, performed the air maneuver known as "Jazzing the Crowd." Vexed indeed was His Holiness Pope Pius XI to be thus interrupted while addressing Italian working girls in famed St. Damasus courtyard...
Rest of the week Pope Pius spent in privately considering, selecting documents for inclusion in the Vatican's White Book which will answer Britain's Blue Book on the Malta v. Holy See controversy (see above...