ROYALTY AND VATICAN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17014, 12 April 1923, Page 9

ROYALTY AND VATICAN.

PROTEST BY PROTESTANTS. ; By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright : Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. j LONDON, April U- j What is described as “ a great Pro- J testa»t appeal against the proposed ! Koval visit to the Pope ' was made at j a packed meeting ac the Albert Halt, » at which Lord Gainsborough presided. ( The following resolution was passed:—l That this great demonstration S by loyal subjects of the Crown re- j :;;ards with serious apprehension and regret the announcement that the King and Queen of Knglnnd ore to visit the Pone. It respectfully and dutifully submits that as this will he j their Majesties’ devoted subjects, the , visit should be abandoned. It appeals to the Prime Minister to submit to the King the inadvisability of the visit, and calls upon the Government to immcdiatelv withdraw the British Knvov to the Vatican, seeing that diplomatic relations with i the Porn an -ni infringement of the Constitution and a grave menace to the welfare of this Protestant King(loin. ! The Hon Theophilus Ilusscll. C. 8., who was formerly Minister .Plenipotentiary to Switzerland, was appointed mat year as British Envoy Extraordiny i-y and Mi > i.ste r Plcnipoteilti ai v tsoccisil tni.-sioii) to the Pone. The Pope is the Sovereign Pontiff cf the Western Church and claims temporal power over the Papal Stales which v ere iiu orpoya: r.l with Italy from 1860 to The territory of the Papacy, however, is now confined to the palaces of the Vatican and the Lateran, and the Villa of Castel-Gandolfo.