LATERAN TREATY.
POSITION OF ROMAN CHURCH
SPEECH BY ITALIAN PREMIER
(Australian Press Association.) ROME,. May 15:. Signor Mussolini, in delivering his long-awaited speech on the Lateran Treaty between Italy and the Vatican, declared that the Roman Catholic Church was not sovereign. It was not even free, but was subject to the general laws of th 3 State and the terms of the concordat. Papal representatives were perturbed at Signor Mussolini’s long recital of past conflicts and his refernce to Christianity as a Palestinian sect which might well have died out had it not come to Rome. AGREEMENT RATIFIED. (Australian Press Association —United Service.) ROME, May 14. The Italian Chamber of Deputies today ratified the agreement with the Vatican.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 141, 16 May 1929, Page 7
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