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Such was far from the case. Chancellor Schober did sign a treaty with Prime Minister Mussolini last week, strictly a treaty of friendship and arbitration. He also visited Pope Pius and received the Grand Cordon of the Order of SS. Maurice and Lazarus from King Vittorio Emanuele. His presence in Rome was to thank the Italian Government for lifting the ban on Italian loans to Austria, for Italy's help at The Hague Conference in proving Aus- tria's inability to pay War reparations. It is no secret that both of these favors came in return for Austria...
...near the personage for whom it is mouthpiece, L'Osservatore Romano lately moved its offices from Rome into Vatican City. Last week, Pius XI entered his new U. S. made motorcar (six-cylinder Graham-Paige) and drove, accompanied by chamberlains and guards, 550 yards up the street from his private Vatican doorway to L'Osservatore's new publishing plant, where the whole staff was drawn up to make obeisance. Smiling pleasantly at his novel experience, the Pope passed into the composing room, peered through his heavy-lensed' spectacles at upside-down type plates, at intricate, clanking...
...before been attacked. Fascist officials have sharp orders to apprehend and silence Loud Speaker's perpetrators without delay or mercy, for ridicule is the one weapon no dictatorship can long withstand. Roman gossips, well aware of the breach over edu cation and other matters between Il Dnce and Pius XI, have slyly but of course quite erroneously suggested that Loud Speaker emanates from the same sanctified publishing plant as L'Osservatore Romano...
...wool "three fingers broad" embroidered with six purple crosses, is worn over the chasuble as a symbol of the secular authority delegated by the Holy See. Originally peculiar to the Pope, it is now given to cardinals and archbishops as the highest papal honor. As Archbishop Ratti, Pope Pius XI received the pallium for his work in Poland. Two to receive pallia a month ago were Cardinals Cerejeira, Patriarch of Lisbon, and Verdier, Archbishop of Paris...
Finally Newman's day came. Pio Nono (Pius IX) died; his successor raised Newman, at 80, to the Cardinalate. Ten years later (1890) Death came for him, who had lived to see his wheel of fortune come full circle. A gentleman and a scholar, he had his reward...