A HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
FASCISM AND THE VATICAN P OLmCO -RELI GIOU S ALLIANCE SOUGHT. (Pres. Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON May 24. The Westminister Gazette s political correspondent states that Signor Mussolini is secretly negotiating for Vatican support for Italian expansion on the lines of a tioly Homan Empire. The bargain includes the settlement of the question of the Papacy’s temporal power, giving the Pope actual territory on the Vatican side of the River Tiber. Signor Mussolini hopes to profit by the Vatican’s troubles in France and Jugo-Slavia, and to gain the Pope’s blessing and interest in Fascist internal policy and external expansion. Italian officers are alread- wearing wrist watches ■ upon which are miniature maps of Imperial Italy, which includes Nice and Malta. The prime mover at the Vatican is not the Pope, who is actually worried and anxious, but a powerful personage behind the Papal throne who threatens to resign whenever the Pope expresses his misgivings too forcibly.—Sydney Sun Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19799, 26 May 1926, Page 9
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