INTERNATIONAL: Suspended

The death of the Pope last week caused a lull in international war drummings, celebrations, diplomatic and social functions. Italy stopped its violent newspaper campaign against the European democracies for a whole three days, renewed it early this week with new vigor. Gracious comment on Pius' death in German newspapers was that he was a "political" Pope and the next one should not be.

In Rebel Spain celebrations of the fall of Catalonia had to be postponed. The vicars general of the Diocese of Barcelona and the Archdiocese of Tarragona declared their "gratitude for the...

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