PAPAL STATE: Blowout & Crash

If Pope Pius XI should suddenly begin to spend his summers in a high, cool, suburban palace instead of in the low, stuffy Vatican how would most Catholics react?

Since Il Papa and Il Duce settled their differences with the Lateran Treaty (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929, et ante), His Holiness has had no need to consider himself any longer "The Prisoner of the Vatican," but he is widening his orbit of movement with extreme circumspection. One day last week he set out soon after dawn to make a second visit to high, cool...

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