Evening star., 1939-03-11

State by Plus XII
Pope Picks Ex-Nuncio
To Paris to Assume
Diplomatic Post
BY the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY, March IL
Pope Plus XII today appointed
Luigi Cardinal Maglione, former
nuncio to Paris, Vatican secretary
of state-the position which, as
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, the Pom
tiff himself, had filled under Plus XII.
Cardinal Maglione, an experienced
diplomat, is 81, one year younger
than the Pontiff. He is one OF the
Popes intimate friends. They were
classmates in Capranica College at
Rome when they were studying for
the priesthood.
Plus XII In his first speech, broad
cast the day after his election March
2, indicated he would use his influence
for peace as did his predecessor and
chose Cardinal Maglione as faith
full friend who would carry out his
policy in wholehearted spirit.
Know Europe's Trouble Spots.
The two men are we'll acquainted
with Europe's trouble spots. Both
the Pope and the new secretary are
diplomats. Both are Italian. The
pontiff has first-hand knowledge
OF Germany. Cardinal Maglione has
a fUst-hand knowledge of France.
They, therefore, were considered in
foreign circles particularly qualified
to ease by diplomacy the stresses be-
tween the Vatican and political die
tatorships, as we'll as to make the
voice of the Catholic Church heard
on behalf of peace whenever crisis
develops among the nations.
One Of the secretary's first duties
will be to receive the diplomatic
corps, the College Of Cardinals, the
Papal Court and other Vatican off,
cials at the pontiff's summer palace
at Castel Gandolfo at 4 pm. IO am.
E. S. T) Monday. The visit to the
lakeside palace was arranged at the
special desire Of the Pope.
The appointment was announced
as part of busy morning for the
Pontiff. who tomorrow will be
crowned formally with elaborate
ceremony after mass in Great st.
Peters.
He received Prime Minister de
Valera OF Ireland in private audience
earlier today.
Occupied by War.
War In Africa and League of Ma
tons sanctions occupied Msgr Mag
lione in Paris while the late Pope
Piux xI was conferring the red hat
on colleagues named with him in the
secret consistory of December l6,
1885.
Cardinal Maglione was one of the
personages whose talks with Premier
Laval of France were linked in the
world press with the Franco-British
proposal to end the Italo- Ethiopian
war late in 1885.
His position as papal nuncio at
Paris, seat of most OF the extra
League peace efforts in that dis
pute, marked him as a key man in
Pope Plus efforts to help avert a
European catastrophe.
Plus sent his red hat to him for
presentation by President Lebrun in
accordance with established custom
for SO honoring prelates in France at
time when heightened diplomatic
activity in Paris found him busiest.
He was born March 2. 1877, at
Casoria, in the Archdiocese of
Naples. He was baptized the follow
ing day in the parochial church of
San Mauro by his own brother.
Domenico, priest who died in 1908
with claims to sainthood.
He was admitted to the seminary
Of Cerreto Sannita, then governed
by Msgr. Luigi Sodo. on October 25,
1886. For the next % years he
buried himself in studies. In 1901
he was ordained a priest. The fol-
lowing year he took his degree in
theology at the Capranica College
of Rome and six years later, in 1908,
he took another in philosophy.
Got Canon Law Degree.
While fulfilling his military serv-
ice. young Maglione found time to
obtain degree in canon law. No
vember 81, 1905, he entered the
Academy of Ecclesiastic Mobiles,
where in 1907 he took his examina-
ton for graduation under Msgr
Della Chiesa, assistant secretary of
state, later to become Benedict XIV.
With this formidable scholastic
background, he began his service to
the church. After a short teaching
experience he was named copyist
for the Congregation of Extraordi-
nary Ecclesiastical Affairs in 1909.
In February, 1918. he left Italy to
become the representative of the
Holy See in Switzerland and two
years later was nominated titular
Archbishop of Cesarea in Palestine
and apostolic nuncio at the Helve-
tian Confederation
For six years Msgr Maglione held
the nunciature at Berne, Switzer-
land, until the Pope sent him to
Paris to represent the Holy See
! there
At Paris he was awarded the
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor
by the government.
Thousands to Go to Vatican.
Thousands of disappointed appli-
cants for tickets prepared to 60 to
St. Peters Square at sunrise tomor-