A PAPAL STATE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 January 1929, Page 7

A PAPAL STATE.

TERMS- OF SETTJLJSMENT. GERM AX NEWS PA PEB’S REPORT. LONDON. Jan. :j. A remitrkahle story of a reported impending i approc-hemeut between civil Italy, under Signor Mussolini, and the Vatican, is related by ilio “.Daily Mail’s” < orrespondent at Berlin. He says that the reappearance of the ’Papal States on the map of Europe and the liberation of the Pope front bis voluntary -imprisonment in the Vatican are events which it is believed in .Berlin will make 1921) methods notable and further increase the glory of Signor Mussolini.

The first indication that negotiations between the Holy See and Italy were proceeding was given in a single newspaper in the north of Italy, which mentioned that Signor Pacelli, a barrister, and a brother of the Papal Nuncio in Germany, was acting for the Church, while the late Marquis Barone, a civil servant, was a chips for the Italian Government.

Rumours of the settlement of the oonrtict. which has endured ever since the States of the Church were annexed hy the House qf Savoy in 1870, have been frequent in the last six months, but confirmation of the trirch of them is now provided bv the widely circulated organ of the German Centre or Catholic Party, the Kolnische Volkszei timg.

The Rome correspondent of the journal says, “the ncw.s is correct,” and ndd-s that lie found “in well-informed circles, ground for believing that the actual preliminary negotiations had been concluded.”

The Volkssdetutig correspondent indicates the nature of the territorial settlement as follows : “ft was agreed to fulfil the demands always made by the Holy Bee for the transfer to- it of all sovereign territory, on which not only the Vatican and St. Peter's stand, b it which also has space for the College of Cardinals’ the congregations (departments of the government of the Church), and f-ur the diplomatic corps. ’ That is to say. the States of the Church will consist -of only a small part of the city of Rrjme. and will be no mere than a pin-point on the map of Europe. In that tiny territory the Tope, not the King -of Italy will exercise sovereign power.