Identifier: reviewofreviewsw44newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ex-In 190Q, when the celebration of Jeanne ation of the Papal States to the kingdom ofdArcs beatiflcation was held at Mans, M. Italy. Pavie decorated his windows vnih the M. Louis Delzons, in the Revue des Deux Pontiffs colors, unaware certainly that such Mondes, examines the Court of Cassations a natural step would cause, two years later, decision and finds that the weakness of the a legal battle. He actually raised the ques- courts position lies in their assumption that lion of the i)apal sovereignty, and the crimi- there is no sovereignty except when there is a nal division of the Cour de Cassation has state. This principle is no doubt generally just passed a decision which the religious true in international law, but M. Delzons world was not alone to receive with some doubts that sovereignty was ever conceded astomshment. to the Pope as result of the possession of The prefect of La Sarthe had forbidden the the Papal States or ever taken away when 484 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS
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Copyright by Untlerwoud & Underwood, New York POPE PIUS X the states were annexed to United Italy.Historically, M. Delzons resumes: The gift of Charlemagne established the tem-poral power of the Holy See, and this power lastedfor more than ten centuries, until in 1870 the Italian1 roops entered Rome through the Porto Pia. Rutihc states were very mediocre, and their strengthalmost nil, and in the order of economic andmilitary resources, the Pope remained certainly int he lowest rank of sovereigns. He was, however,universally recognized, if not as the first, at leastfor one of those whose good-will, friendship, and))rotection could not be neglected without graveinconvenience; and not charge daftaires, but am- bassadors chosen among men capable of directingthe greatest interests, were deputed to him. There was thus, from the first day of the tem-poral power to the last, a singular dispropotionbetween its material substance, if one may say so,and the extraordinary greatness attributed

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