The Archive · 1938

Pope Holds Usual Audience

Receives 400 Pilgrims in Spite of Medical Advice: — Condition Improving

Rome, Nov. 27.

After a fairly good night, Pope Pius XI gave his usual audiences this morning. This was against medical advice and caused some concern at the Vatican.

The Pope astonished everyone by receiving 400 Hungarian pilgrims, addressing them for ten minutes. He seemed none the worse after spending the morning in private audiences.

The condition of the Pope, who suffered a slight heart attack three days ago, continues to improve.

Many visitors called at the Vatican yesterday to inquire concerning the Pope's condition.—Reuter.

"I am Quite Well"

Vatican City, Nov. 26.

(Officials of Vatican City at 6 p.m. today reported that Pope Pius XI had spent a quiet afternoon and quoted the Holy Father as saying "I am quite well."

Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State, received a group of newlyweds and 400 pilgrims at noon, who were scheduled to see the Pope in a public audience before he was taken ill two days ago with cardiac asthma, Vatican officials said the Pope will grant no more audiences until he is fully rested.

(Officials said that the Pope is breathing easier since he was placed in a specially-built chair. Attendants said that the improvement in his condition' was "clearly evident," throughout the night.

The Vatican advised Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, who is at Naples, of the Pope's recovery and forestalling his return to the United States pending official instruction.s from the Vatican.

Meanwhile, at the Pope's birthplace of Desio, orphans prayed for the recovery of the Holy Father—United Press, It is understood that final measures to assure order and maintain the public services during next Wednesday's strike were decided upon at a two-hour conference at the office of the Premier, M. Edouard Daladier, yesterday.

Military participation in the Government's measures ha:, hitherto beer confined to the establishment of a military tribunal in connection with the requisitioning of the Danzin railway and mines. General Doumenc and six officers, who have gone to Valenciennes, will sit, with civil magistrates, as a military tribunal to dispose of persons obstructing requisition decrees. So far they have had very few cases to deal with. The establishment of this tribunal, which is neither a war council nor a court-martial, is a corollary to the decision to enforce requisitioning.

"Daladier Must Go"

Of the big anti-Government demonstrations planned throughout France, yesterday, only a few here and there took place, and they were quickly dispersed by the police. All was quiet in Paris.

M. Jouhaux, Secretary-General of the C.G.T., at a meeting last night, denounced the recovery decrees of the Government before a crowded hall. Cries of "Daladier must go" were heard.

M. Jouhaux declared that the demonstration was not political in nature but to defend the law. "We shall not have decree laws replacing social legislation voted by Parliament," he exclaimed

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