The Pope's Last Crusade (41 page)

St. Augustine, Florida: Hurley appointment as bishop in, 218

St. Ignatius College, 104

St. Ignatius of Loyola, 9, 89

St. Peter's Basilica: Pius XI funeral in, 192–93

Stalin, Joseph, 17, 106

Stanton, Edward, 227

State Department, U.S., 69, 105, 122, 211

Statendam
(ship): LaFarge return from Europe on, 131, 132, 134, 139–40

Stein, Father Johan, 55

students, anti-Fascists: Pius XI meeting with, 174, 201, 227

Suchecky, Bernard, 226–27

Sudetenland, 17, 42–43, 44, 111–12, 117–18, 125, 126, 131, 132–33, 141, 151

Tacchi-Venturi, Piero, 129–30

Talbot, Francis X., 18, 40, 82, 93, 96, 97, 107–8, 111, 116, 131, 140, 194

Tardini, Monsignor Domenico, 129, 143, 170, 189–90, 230

Taylor, Myron, 85, 217, 218

Tevere
newspaper, 109

Thompson, Dorothy, 77, 211

Time
magazine, 159, 183, 184

Tisserant, Eugene (cardinal)

    allegations about Pius XI death of, 198–99, 200, 201, 202–3, 226

    as candidate for pope, 205

    death of, 202

    memoirs of, 202

    Pacelli compared with, 58

    Pacelli election/coronation as pope and, 205, 211

    papers/files of, 202–3, 229

    Paul VI relationship with, 202–3

    Pius XI death and, 185–86

    Pius XI meeting with, 177

    Pius XI relationship with, 58, 177, 185–86, 216

    professional background of, 185, 186

    selection of Pius XI successor and, 195, 197–98, 203

    views about Nazis and Fascism of, 216

Tolischus, Otto D., 151

Town Hall (New York City): LaFarge speech at, 162–63

Treaty of Versailles, 17, 131

Truman, Harry S., 218

United States

    anti-Semitism/race issues and, 1–2, 8–9, 51, 59–62, 85, 95, 154–55

    Communism and, 141

    French relations with, 86

    Hitler mockery of, 85–86

    Hitler/Nazi persecution of Jews and, 69

    Hitler visit to Rome and, 14

    Hurley–Pius XI relationship and, 104

    Kristallnacht condemnation by, 152–53

    Nazi Germany relations with, 39–40, 141, 151

    Pacelli election as pope and, 205

    Pacelli visit to, 69–72

    Pius XI crooked crosses statement and, 33

    Pius XI death reaction in, 193–94

    plans about outbreak of World War II of, 121–22

    selection of Pius XI successor and, 196

    Vatican relations with, 70, 105, 122–23, 148, 209–10, 217–18

    
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The Unity of the Human Race
(
Humanis Generis Unitas
) (encyclical), 113, 171, 189

Vatican

    as city-state in Rome, 62

    Hurley banishment from, 218

    peace initiatives of, 118

    Pius XI concerns about divisions within, 191–92

    Pius XI isolation within, 143

    Pius XI views about papacy and, 63–64

    political divisions within, 4, 25, 75, 79, 92, 100, 129–30, 143, 146–47, 176, 191–92, 211–12

    popes as prisoners of, 62

    spying on, 97–99, 191–92

    World War II role of, 226, 230

    
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Vatican Library, 29, 185, 186

Vatican Observatory, 64

Vatican Radio, 22, 32, 33, 49, 64–67, 100, 102, 122, 128, 144, 177, 217

Vatican Secret Archives, 191, 202, 227, 229

Vatican Secretariat of State, 73, 217

Ventures in Diplomacy. The Diary of Caroline Drayton Phillips
(W. Phillips), 228

Victor Emmanuel II, 52, 62

Victor Emmanuel III, 52

vom Rath, Ernst: murder of, 150

von Bergen, Diego, 118, 196

von Galen, Clement (cardinal), 231

Warren, Hope, 15

Wilberforce, Robert, 15

Wilkins, Roy, 1

With Deep Anxiety
(
Mit Brennender Sorge
) (Pius XI encyclical), 26, 72, 75, 77–78, 97

WMCA radio station, 153

Wolf, Hubert, 228

World War I/Great War, 17, 20, 40, 42, 43, 86, 87, 104, 109, 121, 186

World War II

    beginning of, 217

    Pacelli role in, 229

    role of Catholic Church in, 216, 218–19, 226, 230

    U.S. plans concerning outbreak of, 121–22

Yugoslavia: Jews in, 47

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