1] To jettison the Vatican Embassy is to share the stupidity of Stalin who quipped sardonically in 1933, "and how many armies has the Vatican?"
2] Saint Pope john Paul answered him decades later through Vatican Diplomatics resulting in the downfall of the Soviet Empire.
3] Stalin's decapitated statues and truncated black boots enstatue Moscow parks
4] When Hitler visited Rome in1938, Pope Pius XI closed museums[Hitler's fave] and Pope headed for Castel Gondolfo, as Pius noted "the air in Rome these days has suddenly become foul"[thus avoiding private audience witth Hitler
5] [Incidentally my Latin teacher[ then a student in Rome] lined seminary roof with cassocked seminarians. Father recounted to us with humorous bravado "as Hitler drove past-Hitler looked up at us I looked him sraight in the eye;he looked at me and he turned away first!!"[uproarious clapping from 1st year Latin class]
6] WW2 docs corroborate the Vatican as go-between for German plotters and Great Britain in attempt to assassinate Hitler[GB pulled out for fear of worse successor]
7] In 1943The tanks of the Third Reich rumbled along the Via Conciiazione to the Vatican border to face the might of the Swiss Guards with halberds and blunderbuss]
8]Pope Pius ordered guards not to fire-the Swiss Commander demanded to see the order in writing
9]The tanks reversed
10] Add to that a most fruitful secret litany of interventions on the international stage and at UNO
11]Expelling papal Nuncio from Australia is utter madness thereby jettisoning 2000 years of international wisdom and contemporary diplomatic influence second to none
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