THE VATICAN IN THE AGE OF THE DICTATORS 1922-1945

London/Sidney / Auckland/ Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, 1973. Contents: 1). The new Pope Pius XI. 2). The arrival of fascism. 3). The Italian Concordat 1929. 4). Exploiting the Concordat - in Malta and the holy places. 5). The Abyssinian war. 6). The anti-clerical states: France, Czechoslovakia and Mexico. 7). Papal condemnation of the Action Française. 8). The papacy and the Spanish imbroglio. 9). Conversion and persecution in Russia. 10). The Habsburg secession states. 11). Germany: from Weimar to national socialism. 12). The concordat with Hitler - 1933. 13). For the mind of youth. 14). Mit brennender Sorge. 15). The archievement of Pius XI. 16). The new pope Pius XII: and the outbreak of war - 1939. 17). The German spring tide. 18). The turn of the tide. 19). The Nazi experimental church. 20). Pope, bishop and priest in the Axis states. 21). Pope, bishop and priest in the occupied states. 22). Anton Pavelitch, a catholic dictator. 23). Pius XII and the jews (underlinings!). With bibliography and index. 9 illustrations. Anthony Rhodes (1916 - 2004) was a British writer of memoirs, novels, travelogues, reviews and histories. This volume, earned the praise of Rebecca West, who considered it 'scrupulously fair and informative on matters obscured by the mutterings of fools'. 783 pag. . 1st edition. Hard bound. Good condition/dust jacket minor edge wear. 24cmx17cm.