The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-13
Will olar-Statesman Pacelli Be Named To Papal Throne by College of Cardinals?
His Health May Be Factor In Voting
BY MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Stan Correspondent

NEA ScrVhce StAu NVrrespvHueHt
 Rome Feb l3--Eugenio Cardinal Pa celli, who with the death of Pope Plus xI becomes interim spiritual ruler of the worlds Catholics, has won major distinction as Q scholar, linguist, diplomat and statesman.
 Pacelli, who until the College of Cardinals elects Q new Pope is world head of the Roman Catholic Church, is believed by many to be Q natural and probable successor to Plus. He will Do 63 next March 2.
 Among objections voiced to his be- coming Pope is the state of his health. Pacelli has weak chest and each year sojourns In switserland's s mountains.
 Cardinal Pacelli has had one of the most distinguished careers of any man in the present College of Cardinals. He was born in Rome March 2, 1876, and comes of Q fan- fly which has long had close con- nections with the Vatican. His father, Filippo Pacelli, was dean of the consistorial advocates
 His brother, Francesca, played Q considerable part in the negotiation as the Lateran treaties between the Vatican and Fascist Italy, and for his services was made e Marquis and c councillor of the new Vatican state.
 WAR TIME
 DIPLOMAT
 Eugenio Pacelli was ordained to the priesthood in 1899. After getting his degrees of Doctor of Divinity and Doctor of Canon Law, he was as- signed to Pope Leo XIII in 1900 for duties in the offices of the Papal Sec- retariat of State. In 1908 he was made professor of diplomacy in the Academia dei Nobili. He had also served In the Sacred Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Af- fairs, thus coming to the notice of the great Cardinal dasparri, who for so many years conducted the foreign affairs of the Vatican.
 Pope Plus x and, later, Pope Bene- diet XIV, made Paeelli Secretary of the Congregation. Later Pope Bene- dict consecrated him as bishop in the great sistine Chapel and in 1917, sent him as Papal Nuncio to Ba- varia.
 Here, among other things, he worked hard to further the Pope's last effort to bring the warning powers together and to end the war. When the Germans lost the war and the Bolsheviks, for e short time, ruled Bavaria, Pacelli's life was in danger and he finally left. But later he returned and secured e concordat between Bavaria end the Vatican.
 He was consecrated Archbishop of aardes and in 1920 was sent as first Papal Nuncio to the new German republic. Tn Berlin he worked SO well that he secured 0 concordat between Russia and the Vatican.
 Returning to Rome he became un- derstudy to Cardinal Gasparri. He was created e cardinal in 1929. Tn 1880 he succeeded Cardinal dasparri as secretary of state and succeeded Cardinal Merry del Val as archpriest of st. Peter's. Tn these posts he was brought into speedily close touch with Pope Plus xf, who had an ir- creasingly warm regard for him and entrusted him with many important missions of the Vatican.
 ELOQUENT IN
 MANY TONGUES
 Tn October, 1884, he went to Buenos Aires, where he opened the great Eucharistic Congress. Early last autumn he opened and addressed the first session of the International Congress of Catholic Journalists. He spoke for two hours and half in one of the most amazing linguistic feats ever witnessed.
 He started in Italian for the bene- 1t of the Italian delegates; then in French to the French, Belgian and Swiss delegates; in Spanish to the delegates from Spain and the South American republics; in Portuguese to those from Portugal and Brazil; in English to those from the United States, Great Britain and the col- onies and dominions of the British -