New Britain herald., 1929-03-14

paying one lira yearly rent.
 ''The Holy See did not insist, limiting itself to asking sovereignty of the Vatican as it is constituted at present"
 Holy See Gives Aid
 Italy, the premier said. was guid ed during these negotiations by the principle of not admitting sessions of even a minimum zone of Italian territory except that already pos sessed by the Holy See. Fortunately the Holy See entered into this order of ideas, helpful to final happy result in the negotiations.
 The pope being justly convinced that independence or splendor of the papacy was not necessarily
 bound to a larger or smaller exten- sion of territory. the seven year old fascist government created a new atmosphere whereby the Roman question was possible of solution through reciprocal acknowledge
 ment of dcjure situation which had already become the immutable
 de facto situation"
 The lateran treaty shows. accord ing to the premier. the explicit and
 perfect independence of the Holy See" Considering the nature of the sovereignty of the Holy See and, above all. the pastoral mission of the supreme pontiff. speical measure had to be adopted regarding citizen ship of the inmates of the Vatican.
 right of cxtradition, administration. aritics ''of this city which can be called tho city of souls more than d
 city of things and men,"
 No lutcr,cntluaa Question, There never was any question of intervention Of foreign powers, h. said. adding that il was superfluous to point out that the article Of the treaty whereby the Vatican is recog- nized as neutral makes it inyiola be and eNtrancous 10 temporal compc- titions among states.
 'The Vatican is defended not only l by its smallness as it is no proof Of yalor 10 attack small state while it will always be a merit to defend if, but also by the fact the Italian state surrounding tho Nati- can soIemnly proclains itself a Catholic state in Article One of the treaty.
 'Thc political, religious. moral and beneficial consequences Of the
 agreement are obvious while it's so. lu'ior by the fascist regime shows it's efficiency and solidiiy."
 Financial Convention Concerning the financial cony.n- ton, part of the accord. II DuCe
 said that despite the onerous charges of the postwar period it's terms
 should not be regarded as particu- larly burdeusomc.
 He said it was not worthy of the confidence shown by the Holy See in the Italian securities as one b;l- lion consols are al present worth Sco. .ono." ."Hn lire, 10 which were add ed 1Jn, ,oe0. .o0U lire cash. This to-
 tale1 billion and half paper lire
 or 4oo .hoo. .o0o gold lire at pre- war
 exchange while hy the law of guar antocs tho Italian government
 pledged itself 10 1925, 900 gold lire yearly. With the payment stipulat-
 ed in the treaty financial relations
 between Italy and the Holy See are liauidated forever.
 Premier Mussolini then remark ] that while the political treaty rcgu- latcs the rapport between Italy and
 the Holy Sec, the central intcrna-
 tional organ of the holy Catholic church, the concorlat regulates ;hc relation between the Italian state and the Italian church.
 'Thc first Of the two acts was
 necessary" he said ito resolve th" unhappy misunderstanding arising during the formation Of Italian unity i through the compleXity of circum-
 stances derived perhaps more from the fatality of historic events than from ill will of men. That msun- derstandings has disturbed for more than 70 years the conscience of Italians. This misunderstanding. which was concerned particularly
 with the territorial extent of the Holy See and 10 guarantee the inde- pendence necessary 10 the supreme pontiff for the exercise of his spirit