ITALY AND VATICAN.
AGREEMENT RATIFIED. ONLY tWO DISSENTIENTS. EXPLANATION BY MUSSOLINI. Australian nnd N.Z. Press Association. (Received May 15. 11.5 p.m.) ROME, May 11. The Chamber of Deputies to day ratified tho agreement ■ with the Vatican by 357 votes to 'I. Tho Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini, delivered a long-awaited speech on the treaty. Ho said the Roman Catholic Church was not sovereign. It was not even free, but was subject to tho general laws of tho State and the terms of tho concordat. Papal representatives were perturbed at tho Duce's long recital of past conflicts and his reference to Christianity as a Palestinian sect which might well have died out had it not come to Rome.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20256, 16 May 1929, Page 9
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