America and the Vatican : trading Information after World War II / Robert F. Illing.

By: Illing, Robert FMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Palisades, N.Y. : History Pub. Co., 2011Description: 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781933909691; 1933909692Subject(s): Diplomatic and consular service, American -- Vatican City | Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- United States | United States -- Foreign relations -- Catholic Church | Illing, Robert F | Diplomats -- United States -- BiographyDDC classification: 327.730456/34 LOC classification: JZ1480.A57 | .V38 2011Summary: "Fifteen years after World War II, the United States opened a small mission in the Vatican and the author Robert Illing, a non-Catholic and a career Foreign Service officer, served as the functioning charge d'affaires, He saw and came to understand the dual nature of the Vatican as a city-state political entity apart from its place as center of the Roman Catholic Church, and brings to the reader that insight as he functioned in the dynamic make-up of the American mission that was a curisity to some and a recognized place of importance to many" --Dust jacket flap.
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Includes index.

"Fifteen years after World War II, the United States opened a small mission in the Vatican and the author Robert Illing, a non-Catholic and a career Foreign Service officer, served as the functioning charge d'affaires, He saw and came to understand the dual nature of the Vatican as a city-state political entity apart from its place as center of the Roman Catholic Church, and brings to the reader that insight as he functioned in the dynamic make-up of the American mission that was a curisity to some and a recognized place of importance to many" --Dust jacket flap.

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