Foreign News: Vatican v. Kremlin

Traders on the Rome Stock Exchange cocked pious ears one day last week to whispered tips that Pope Pius XII is busy as a beaver getting together a new European Four-Power Conference excluding Russia. Delightedly they watched as renewed hope of peace upped stocks for point gains.

The Vatican wraps its diplomatic moves in as thick a fog as the Kremlin. But two mysterious talks of the Pope with British Minister to the Vatican Francis D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne, a talk with German Ambassador to the Vatican Carl Ludwig Diego von Bergen, two "very important"...

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