Gave it the privileged position as there are religion of the land. This was a big occasion the tenth anniversary. All of the bishops were summoned and mussolinis own representatives with a bear. The kings son would either. The world would be watching. It was a speech that the pope saw as his last opportunity to get out a dramatic message. The killy rots a. I dont know how to work this. One button which doesnt seem to do anything. Im just going to show you a couple of images to illustrate. That is what we are trying to do but i dont want to keep you there. This shows you get an idea of the last 10 days of his his life when he looked like it if you go to the next image here you see both as a younger man. At the time they both came to power in 1922 which is the beginning of my story. Benito mussolinmussolin i is a 39yearold, a rabblerouser. Through an extortion he had come to power just a few months after the pub came to power. The dictator came to depend on the pope and vice versa and th
Pius xi and italian dictator Benito Mussolini who both obtained power in 192. This is about an hour. Well, thank you, it is a pleasure to be here. The book was just publish ad few days ago and great to have you here to help milan much it. The, let us begin by setting the scene. Some of you are more familiar with this than other the. Its a scene i use in the prologue of the book to help set it up even though the scene comes near the end of the story, the popes last days. The pope is found in his office. He is ailing, he is elderly, he is infirmed. He begs god to give him a few more days to live. He has something he needs to say and realizes he has very little time left on the earth. For years the pope had been in good health, known as the robust, mountaineer pope as a young priest, climbed many high alpine peeks. He was known as i am peer just, as demanding while scholarly and devout. He insisted on knowing every detail of everything going on in the vatican and making all the decisions
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And sister whom he had been close to refer to him as napoleon nest. Also for the 17 years he was pope he never allowed anyone to sit down at the table when he ate, not even a cardinal. And this by the way was different than some of his predecessors and a continuing tradition that all of his predecessors had obeyed. The popes vision of the church and of the world was basically a medieval one in which there was only one True Roman Catholic Church and all to his teachings and lines of authority. Mussolini as i alluded to before was in many ways his opposite. The anticleric, the rabblerouser, the person who valued violence but also had a notion of a new society. This is certainly not a medieval vision but a new vision. Mussolini before he came to power had been a radical socialist. He had been reading social meeting and it was the outbreak of world war i that he had the division with the socialist party or for the war and he wanted italy to enter the war. He founded the fascist movement an
Remarks. You could see one part of Army Intelligence telling the pentagon we cannot bring this guy to the United States. He was a nazi and turned a colleague over and this was a u bad act but then the pentagon says we need him. And he came. There he is as the first director of the jfk space center and still every year they give out the kurt debus award. And i interviewed the head and said what about kurt debus who wore the ss uniform to work and turned over a colleague and he was a nazi . What do you say to that . And the answer was no one has ever asked me that question before. So, i would like to end with the idea that einstein had it right in my opinion. He left german prior to hitlers armament buildup and maintains the reason he left as a scientist was because he wasnt going to work for a raw and r rabid nazi militia. He is one of the people with power that petitioned truman not to let operation paperclip happen but to no avail. And my last picture is this. This is an old german pr