Show New Papal Secretary Faces Difficult Task I Pacelli Has Brilliant Record in Diplomatic Work LONDON MardI March 23 29 3 NEA XEA- XEA While hIle tho the Roman noman Catholic church Is being faced with new problems of or diplomacy among them the tho task of ot d dealing alln with soviet Russia a a. comparatively young oung and newly hutted cardinal Is Js assuming tho manifold Duties of or papal secretary secre tary of or state te But Eugenio P tho the son of ofa ofa a a. prominent all Vatican n Is byno by byno byno no means ans untried In tho the conduct of papal affairs lIe He sp spent nt man many years ars arsIn In Germany cn engaged In diplomatic Work vork B By wa Iva way o or of contrast Pietro Cardinal the man ho has succeeded be began an life as a a. humble peasant lad But he too worked abroad for Of years ears twenty of ot them having been spent In France Franco Thus does tho the church emphasize Its democracy and mid International character by 11 recognizing talent wherever where It is to be be- found There Thero bo be no change chango in tho the foreign policy pol pol- JC Ic icy of or the Vatican for Pacelli was tho thio most loved pupil of or Secretary Emeritus G Gasparri and will ill continue the tIre work worl begun b by his predecessor sor Nor Noi he has indicated will there bo be any changes in the lie stuff state of or tho the secretariat Jat chosen by SUCCEEDS VETERAN Cardinal Pacelli re regardless of oC his lila expert training and extensive o experience experience experience might well ell bo be dismayed b by bythe bytho tho the record of or the tile veteran whom ho succeeds For Gali Gasparri will un undoubtedly lift lift- db rank a as ono one of ot tho ho greatest great s est eat diplomats and Jurists tho ho aliI ali ati I can ever over has produced Ho first came Into world face In his church by his gigantic 1 ta task k of or codifying its c canon non law This work begun besun more than ban fifteen years cUs ago ngo has Just been finished Now In the tho evening of his life life life- for er Gasparri Is 77 lIvins 77 living in a mode modest modest mod mod- e est t little palace overlooking Rome Rom given him hinl b by Pope Popo Pius Plus XI Car Cardinal Cardinal Cardi Cardi- l- l nal Gasparri expects to finish another another another an an- other big job job that that of oC co codifying the laws of tho the church In the tho lie orient It wa was sas in October 1911 i a L few months after the tho beginning of tho World war var that Popo Benedict XV called rolled Cardinal Inal Gasparri to be he s see see- c- c rotary of state slata ane and thus tItus ha have vo su tu- tu preme charge of ot all nil the tho churchs church's foreign n affairs It Jt was vas some tomo said tho tim mot most ticklish and difficult Job JobIn Jobin jobIn In the world Tho Tue church claiming to bo ho International wa was nevertheless nevertheless less clamorously bC besieged b by both the lie central powers and tho the allies to declare the tho Justice of their heir respective tive tiro contentions Gasparri at al once laid down own thIs thin principle I The Tho popo pope can lIn Ii make no difference I between tho the various warring t powers DISMISSED PROPAGANDA lie He stuck to this so clo closely cly that General In charge ol ot th the lie German armies thundered against the French pope popo and Clemenceau on his side spoke of ot tho ho bocho pope While dismissing the propaganda of both bides Gl did not not- hesitate heal hesi tate into to cull call tho the German armyo march Into Belgium a. a flagrant wron r. r I ills His lis job became cven exen en more precarious when Ital Itah Italy entered d the war var on tho the side of ot tho the allies tilleR |