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...Rome it was announced that His Holiness Pope Pius XI had decided to create four new Cardinals, all non-Italians...
...Brady, (died 1913) accumulated $80,000,000 by organizing public utilities and on the Stock Exchange; the son, with his brother Nicholas F., increased the family fortune. He supported many charities, chiefly Catholic; once he sold all his race horses and gave the proceeds away. For his benefactions Pope Pius XI made him a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory and a private chamberlain of the Cape and Sword; last December King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy made him Knight Commander of the Crown of Italy...
Dictator Josef Pilsudski let it be known that next month he would travel south, to Italy, to see his old friend Pope Pius XI, onetime (1919-21) Papal Nuncio at Warsaw, and also to see Dictator Benito Mussolini, whom he admires...
...within a few hours, the good-will men were lunched by King Vittorio Emanuele and blessed by Pope Pius XI. Commander Savage later described how "King Emmanuel of Italy welcomed us in his summer palace at Pisa." "He is," said the Commander, "the most affable, democratic monarch it would be possible to meet. His speaking such perfect English made things especially easy for us." During the Pisa visit as the King finished talking with a knot of Legionaries and turned to leave them, a U. S. voice boomed: "Gangway for the King...
King Vittorio Emanuele, hearing of the advent of a baby Duce, wired his "cousin"* his warm congratulations, as did Pope Pius through his Secretary of State, Cardinal Gasparri...