Edited sentence: However, several of these diplomats spent much of their time in other European capitals (Argentina, Estonian, Latvia, Liberia, Peru, Salvador), were merely sincecures (Belgium), or were unpaid (Honduras).In 1936 (three years before Pius XII became pope), there were thirty-four ambassadors, ministers, or chargé d'affaires to the Holy See.Nicaragua's ambassador was senile, and Panama's ambassador had not been seen since 1929.Others represented micronations that "hardly counted" (Monaco, San Marino, Order of Malta).The Spanish ambassador was driven out by a "tragi-comic siege" in the Piazza di Spagna