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...tiny stature, Italy's Vittorio Emanuele and Siam's waif Praja Dhipok. In Manhattan the Isotta is sold by a son of potent Prince-Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio. Sumptuous, fur-carpeted is the new Isotta-Fraschini limousine just presented by Italian admirers to Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius...
...speech from the throne"-that is to say, Mussolini's declaration of policy-the voice of His Majesty rang loud and clear. As everyone had expected, the speech urged upon the deputies as their supreme duty ratification of the enabling legislation for the treaty and concordat recognizing Pope Pius XI as a temporal sovereign (TIME, Feb. 18). Apart from that, Vittorio Emanuele touched upon only one topic of general interest, disarmament...
Evidently it is not news that the only Priest-Prime Minister in Europe has resigned; nor does it seem worth printing that his resignation is attributed in Vienna and Rome to a "suggestion" from Pope Pius XI. Undeserving of a line is the fact that there are in Austria two irregular armies, both anxious to try a bloody bout for Power. It is not even worth explaining that at the root of the political crisis there is a law-championed by the Communists and fought by the Catholics-which today enables the working people of Vienna to rent houses...
Down the Pincian Hill with cassock billowing behind him fled the holy one, now thoroughly alarmed. He was only a humble Benedictine monk, but so strongly did he resemble Pius XI that, unconvinced by his protests, one of the children reverently picked up and treasured the little breviary lying on the ground. In humble Roman homes it is now fully believed that the Pope's first step into the great world since his "liberation," was in the simple quality and disguise of a lowly monk and for the gentle purpose of dozing on a park bench...
...popular Cardinals in the act of dropping their sealed ballots into the voting urn were displayed in all Italian illustrated reviews and Sunday roto-gravures. In sunny Palermo cameras even caught Monsignor Lavitrano as he ostentatiously deposited unsealed a ballot plainly emblazoned with the Fascist device.* Placid, bespectacled Pope Pius XI and other churchmen actually resident in the new Papal State could not vote because they are no longer citizens of Italy. Dopesters estimated that His Holiness' influence had flung into the scale of Fascismo at least 1,000,000 extra votes. A sadder if not wiser voter was Crown...