Pope for Peace

Like his predecessor Pius XI, Pope Pius XII is called "Pope of Peace" by his admirers. Published last week was a quick job of biography of the new Pope, Pius XII, Pope of Peace, /- which made out no case for giving him, any more than Pius XI, such a special designation. Last week the Holy Father spent his first Holy Week in office, a week made notable by the fact that his neighbor Benito Mussolini chose Good Friday to invade Albania. On Easter Sunday Pius XII made a radio address to the world: "There can be no peace so long as treaties which have been solemnly sanctioned have lost that security value which constitutes the foundation for reciprocal trust. . . ."

Meanwhile the Vatican, already equipped with gas masks, selected a shelter in which the Pope of Peace will take refuge in case of air raids: a low, round, 15th-Century tower with walls 15 feet thick at the bottom, lined with steel.

/- By Joseph F. Dinneen -- McBride ($2.50).

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