PAPAL STATE: Les Extravagances de Gastounet

Les Extravagances de Gastounet

If Quaker President Herbert Hoover should say: "We are a great Catholic nation and such we should remain!"—that would be news. In Vatican City last week Editor Count G. Dalla Torre of the Papal newsorgan Osservatore Romano thought he had news nearly as big. Just arrived was a communication from Jean Cardinal Verdier, new Archbishop of Paris (TIME, Dec. 2). Joyously the prelate reported that he had just had audience with the President of France, M. Gaston ("Gastou-net") Doumergue, stanch Protestant, who said (said the Cardinal): "Your...

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