The Pope last week was not represented by an official delegate in Rightist Spain, though he had given de facto recognition to the Salamanca Government by accepting the credentials of General Franco's Charge d'Affaires to the Vatican (TIME, Sept. 6).
There was, however, a "provisional, semiofficial" Vatican representative in Salamanca—Isidoro Cardinal Goma y Tomas. Last week he ordered circulated to every Catholic bishop in the world an extensive letter, 10,000 words long, signed by himself, one other cardinal, six archbishops, 35 bishops, and five vicars capitular which did more than any ambassadorial recognition...
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