| Show ITALY AND THE VATICAN I 1 hw fotr the Ulo bloodless Blood ocIle lees and unequal war le ig waged it is a rached maxim handed down from age to age by the uc tuc t censors of st peter that whatever spiritual or temporal powers have once been placed within their hands shall be kept intact it i t and anim unimpaired paired sa says ys magazine they do not admit defeat what they do not pos sus de facto fact they at ai least posse de jure if they have lost the substance they retain the shadow and iff if their earthly kingdom has been filched that loss they say will only be continued for a season until that brighter day returns when all ahall be restored the holy catholic church it is said id c can afford to stand and vait sit an all seeing providence will give her the victory at last in the belief of all true catholics it is certain that she will eventually triumph as that the th e sun bun will rise again meanwhile though she flie nver she never 2 reste asb and she presses on her claims with a persistency which if often silent never flags they are pushed from hour to hour from efrom day to day from year to year lad L ad it if the outside world can forget them 0 or r deride them the government of ring king humbert never can it has to face an unsleeping foe whom no good will can ever conciliate or appease whose claims are incapable of compromise both demand the right to rule in the city of the caesara caesars and the abe victory of one side means meane the inevitable and enduring humiliation of the other so is id waged the bloodless but unequal war yet though the occupation of the quirinal Is securely based on fo force ace the vatican has weapons in her arsenal of a less material kind with which she is well able to harass and annoy |
